Word Finder - hypothetically

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In a hypothetical way; as a hypothesis.

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He offered the proposition hypothetically.

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Used to introduce a proposition to discussion without commitment to its truth

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Hypothetically, what would you say if I proposed marriage to you?

Hypothetically speaking …" "Could you come home when you wanted?" she asked.

Thus the ordinary rules of social behaviour are only hypothetically obligatory; they are actualized by the establishment of a " common power " 1 This influence was not exercised in the region of ethics.

Hypothetically speaking; this ability we possess might cease tomorrow.

Or again, within the latter in his admission of a duality of thought and " the given " in knowledge, which within knowledge was apparently irreducible, concurrently with hints as to the possibility, upon a wider view, of the sublation of their disparateness at least hypothetically and speculatively.

It is from the human standpoint regulative and only hypothetically or formally constitutive.

Hypothetically, let's say you're in the 28 percent tax bracket and you have to withdraw $20,000 from your IRA in a specific year.

This argument has been met in recent times by the application to mind of the physiological theory of heredity, according to which changes produced in the mind (brain) of a parent, by association of ideas or otherwise, tend to be inherited by his offspring; so that the development of the moral sense or any other faculty or susceptibility of existing man may be hypothetically carried back into the prehistoric life of the human race, without any change in the manner of derivation supposed.

Hypothetically speaking …" "Could you come home when you wanted?" she asked.

Some indication of the way in which he would hypothetically and speculatively mitigate the antithesis is perhaps afforded by the reflection that the distinction of the mental and what appears as material is an external distinction in which the one appears outside to the other.

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.