Sentence examples for absurd hypothetical from inspiring English sources

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.

— the absurd hypothetical makes us want to read further.

The absurd hypothetical circumvents that problem, by making any topic, no matter how remote, seem engaging.

(It involved artists creating signs advertising absurd hypothetical uses for neglected buildings in New Orleans).

"This is an absurd hypothetical with no basis in fact, and it's regrettable that there are newspapers that would print groundless, baseless rumors," said the spokeswoman, Anne Marie Corbalis.

Just for fun, when my turn came I offered an absurd hypothetical name for the drug Plotnase, which sounds like something designed to make a person sink into the mud.

Now add in the fact that autonomous cars will actually sense and react to sudden situations instantaneously, unlike human drivers who take more than 1 second of crucial time to see and react, and the need to solve these absurd hypotheticals with ethical algorithms hardly seems pressing.

20), Barry Gewen constructs an erroneous -- and absurd -- hypothetical situation ("What if word had begun seeping back that Japanese-American children were being murdered...?") in his attempt to compare German silence during the mid-1940's, when Jews were being rounded up for murder, to American silence regarding the internment of Japanese-Americans.

Perhaps he realized how absurd his hypothetical scenario sounded.

However absurd and hypothetical, such questions seemed to engage students' minds in a way that simple formulas alone did not.

Should the law treat differently – to make an admittedly absurd but useful hypothetical – the Bronzino or the Greuze?