Sentence examples for a hypothetical argument from inspiring English sources

The idea that tight fiscal policy when the economy is depressed actually reduces private investment isn't just a hypothetical argument: it's exactly what happened in two important episodes in history.

No. Congress voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act for four more years and the only point we – as critics – could raise that might be confused with debate was a hypothetical argument illustrated with a 20-year-old picture of Oliver North.

Other traditionally powerful voices on the right also fared badly in a hypothetical argument against Trump.

Jenkins added that since Trump hasn't approached the city, it's a hypothetical argument.

This is not a hypothetical debate.

You may be satisfied to read only one article at an online website, or you may research for hours, but until you understand all of the sides of this hypothetical argument, your opinion should not become a conviction.

Well, we know which mayor won the hypothetical argument: The mayor who is already thinking about a reelection campaign two years away, even though there's no major opponent on the horizon.

Invalid knowledge involves memory, doubt, error, and hypothetical argument.

To support the hypothetical argument of strain-induced exfoliation, well-established XRD technique is utilized for the analysis of the as-prepared and drawn samples of GNS-PVA composites.

Matters are complicated by the fact that proponents of the view that the alleged problem of transworld identity is a pseudo-problem were to some extent responding to hypothetical arguments, rather than arguments presented in print by opponents (see Plantinga 1974, 93).

We can all indulge in hypothetical arguments since they serve our political interests so well.