hypothetic's Usage Examples:

Prosecutions do not require scores of witnesses swearing on oath that they were in fact depraved and corrupted; it is all hypothetical.

But of these universal propositions the first imperfectly expresses a categorical belief in existing things, the second in thinkable things, and the third in nameable things, while the fourth is a slipshod categorical expression of the hypothetical belief, " If any candidates arrive late they are fined.

It must at the same time be admitted that much of the work of weaving the terms of thought, the categories, into a system has a hypothetical and tentative character, and that Hegel has rather pointed out the path which logic must follow, viz.

It is the law of diminishing returns from land, involving as it does - though only hypothetically - the prospect of a continuously increasing difficulty in obtaining the necessary sustenance for all the members of a society, that gives the principal importance to population as an economic factor.

Apodictic >>It is, as it were, a schedule to be filled in, and is connected with the disjunctive judgment as a schematic setting forth of alternatives, not with the hypothetical, and ultimately the apodictic judgment with their suggestion that it is the real movement of thought that is subjected to analysis.

In that hypothetical situation, what would the defense contractor want?Hypothetically speaking; this ability we possess might cease tomorrow.

These salts are considered to be derived from the hypothetical base OH 3.

Sigwart, indeed, has missed the essential difference between the categorical and the hypothetical construction of syllogisms.

A hypothetical, but typical, example involving pyrophosphate: enzyme 1: A + ATP « B + AMP + PP i.

These actions depend on the desires furnished by hypothetical imperatives.

Among their heritage can be included numerology (numbers and letter characters in a unified system) and the hypothetical Golden Ratio.

In view of the results of this analysis, Reid's theory (and the theory of Scottish philosophy generally) has been dubbed natural realism or natural dualism, in contrast to theories like subjective idealism and materialism or to the cosmothetic idealism or hypothetical dualism of the majority of philosophers.

These observations confirmed by experimental demonstration the hypothetical conclusions of Bell.

Synonyms:

hypothetical, divinatory, supposed, theoretic, conjectural, suppositious, suppositional, supposititious, theoretical,

Antonyms:

empirical, unprophetic, unquestionable, probable, unobligated,