Sentence examples similar to Hypothetical assertion from inspiring English sources
It offers anxious weeders a model of how to move through the process, with suggested rejoinders to such hypothetical assertions as "You can never have enough Sartre".
However, an earlier version of this entry (first published in 2007, last version Winter 2014) was organized around the relations of assertion to other topics, including truth and logic, and contained, e.g., discussions of conditional and hypothetical assertions.
Contrary to popular belief, it is the former rather than the latter which are typical of the natural sciences, which means that typically prediction in natural science is conditional and limited in scope it takes the form of hypothetical assertions stating that certain specified changes will come about if particular specified events antecedently take place.
But he repeatedly added that he had no information to back up those hypothetical assertions and insisted that no physical evidence suggested any reason to believe that the killings were drug-related.
Thus, the functional separations of episodic memory, language, and mentalizing networks we propose here have to be understood as well-founded, yet hypothetical assertions.
Goldberg makes his assertion with a hypothetical: If you are caught in a train car -- or college campus or movie theater -- under the fire of a lunatic killer, would you rather have a weapon to defend yourself or cower in fear under a seat?
Hypothetical, Haunting man.
