Text Formatting ⇒ Placing text with tabs, aligning or with tables without numbering

[Ijon Tichy]

\item[Hypothesis 3a:] \lipsum[1]

if you intend to do the labeling of the list yourself instead of automatically, you should try my first solution.

The first solution was the usage of the KOMA-Script environment labeling. And please read the manual of the used package.

However you can indeed change the automatic label of the hyphothesis environment:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\newlist{hypothesis}{enumerate}{2}
\setlist[hypothesis]{label={Hypothesis~\arabic{*}:},labelsep=1em,leftmargin=*}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{hypothesis}[label={Hypothesis~3\alph{*}:}]
\item\lipsum[1]
\item\lipsum[2]
\item\lipsum[3]
\end{hypothesis}
\end{document}

Or define a subhypothesis environment.

Alternatively you could also do the labeling of the hypothesis environment manually, but change the leftmargin value suitable.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\newlist{hypothesis}{enumerate}{2}
\setlist[hypothesis]{label={Hypothesis~\arabic{*}:},labelsep=1em,leftmargin=*}
\usepackage{showframe}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{hypothesis}[leftmargin=7.5em]
\item[Hypothesis 3a:] \lipsum[1]
\item[Hypothesis 3b:] \lipsum[2]
\item[Hypothesis 3c:] \lipsum[3]
\end{hypothesis}
\end{document}

So once again: Please read the manual of the used package!

[Es_dutch]

Thank you for your reply and sharing your knowledge with me.
I will read the documents of the packages! I tried your first solution and it works so thank you.