hypotheticadj.n.
/hʌɪpə(ʊ)ˈθɛtɪk//hɪpə(ʊ)ˈθɛtɪk/ A. adj.
= hypothetical adj. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > hypothesis > [adjective] > based on hypothesis
hypothetical1665
putationary1669
hypothetica1680
subjunctive1834
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [adjective] > conditional or hypothetical
conditional1532
connexive1587
hypothetical1588
connex1589
connexed1628
substitutive1656
future contingent1659
hypothetica1680
theoretic1789
conjunctivea1856
counterfactual1946
contrafactual1950
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [adjective] > of types of syllogism
modal1569
hypothetical1588
prosyllogistical1588
contract1605
prosyllogistic1652
monstrative1653
enthymematic1654
epicheirematic1656
hypothetica1680
pure1697
indirect1728
dialectal1767
tollent1770
conjunctivea1856
hypothetico-disjunctivea1856
schematica1856
unfigureda1856
subsumptive1884
episyllogistic1886
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 66 On hypothetic Dreams and Visions Grounds everlasting Disquisitions.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 94 That which gives it the form of a hypothetic, and distinguishes it from a categoric proposition.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab Notes 164 Admitting the existence of this hypothetic being.
1876 R. Noel in Macmillan's Mag. XXXIV. 334 How these hypothetic entities [atoms] pulsate and radiate, whirl and travel.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 5 This effect was ascribed to the presence of a hypothetic body.
B. n.† 1. A hypothetical statement, a hypothesis; in Logic, a hypothetical proposition or syllogism (= hypothetical n.). Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [noun] > conditional or hypothetical proposition
conditional judgement or proposition1532
connex1628
hypothetical1654
hypothesis1656
future contingent1659
hypothetic1698
conditional1828
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [noun] > hypothetical or conditional syllogism
hypothetical1654
hypothetic1698
conditional syllogism1864
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 48 Modest Hypotheticks, not any ways informing the Understanding.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 122 This double hypothetic, that if the proposition be true the extremes do really exist, and..that unless the extremes do really exist the proposition cannot be true.
2. n. plural. The making of hypotheses; hypothesizing.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > hypothesis > [noun] > forming of
put-case1565
salving1575
case-putting1645
hypothetic1890
1890 A. Lang Life Sir S. Northcote (ed. 2) II. xiii. 89 That belongs to the science of hypothetics, and anyone may sincerely believe that matters might have been kept quiet by a sagacious and well-informed policy.
1958 New Biol. 25 15 Perhaps we shall be helped to estimate its importance by an exercise in hypothetics.
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