Quote Originally Posted by holli4pirating View Post

For your third - again, you call it a hypothesis. A hypothesis can be correct on incorrect. So it sounds to me like you are not saying that you know for a fact that the tree makes a noise (or the razor is shave ready), but you hypothesize that it does (or is).
exactly. You will never know, but you can take a stance on one side of the fence. Like I said, I don't believe either answer is wrong because we will never know.