Hypothetical
[,haɪpə'θetɪk(ə)l] or [,haɪpə'θɛtɪkl]
Definition
(noun.) a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.; 'consider the following, just as a hypothetical'.
Typist: Serena--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Conditional, that involves an hypothesis.
Edited by Fergus
Examples
- His inference is more or less dubious and hypothetical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Hence it is hypothetical, like all thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I do not dispute your hypothetical case. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The great power of this principle of selection is not hypothetical. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The conclusions of thinking, till confirmed by the event, are, accordingly, more or less tentative or hypothetical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That was a hypothetical case, arising out of Sir Leicester's unconsciously carrying the matter with so high a hand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Presents are made to the Boffin servants, and bland strangers with business-cards meeting said servants in the street, offer hypothetical corruption. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The possibility of hypothetical conclusions, of tentative results, is the fact which the Greek dilemma overlooked. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No matter how great the mathematical probability, the inference is hypothetical--a matter of probability. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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