The phrase "avoid hypotheticals" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when advising someone to refrain from discussing theoretical situations or scenarios that are not grounded in reality.
Example: "In our discussion, let's focus on practical solutions and avoid hypotheticals that may not apply to our current situation."
Alternatives: "steer clear of hypotheticals" or "refrain from hypotheticals".
The idea is clear: namely, to avoid hypothetical constructions, and the use of logic they require, by insisting that a construction be supplied that proves the antecedent.
Rather, the idea is that the basis of the judgement on which such blocking may occur needs to change from 'the researcher's ability to describe, predict and avoid hypothetical ethical problems' to 'the researcher's ability to reflect on the ethical sensitivities of a setting, and to devise strategies for managing them'.
One promising approach for avoiding hypothetical bias is to tell respondents enough about such bias that they self-correct for it.
But my fear is that the current focus on potential acts of terrorism is diverting people from responding to real and immediate risks to their well-being, and in some cases prompting them to take real risks because they are so busy avoiding hypothetical ones.
The key to a BEI is that it avoids hypothetical answers and lets you uncover real past behavior -- and past behavior will give you clear insight into how they will behave in the future, or predictable future behavior.
But, as Van Dalen also notices, it is also in effect a rejection of the hypothetical judgement in the general case where one does not know whether there is a construction for A. On this reading, Brouwer's explanation of the hypothetical judgement avoids hypothetical constructions and the concomitant use of logic by considering conditions on constructions instead of constructions themselves.
All participants who provided illogical ratings were included in the modeling exercise; one participant was excluded from the analysis given that, because of religious reasons, the person did not want to make choices with respect to trading time off to avoid being in hypothetical health states.
A representative of Atlas Corporate Services, another company run by Britons but operating from Mauritius, explained to reporters how to avoid tax on a hypothetical £6m sitting in a Swiss bank account.
The streams thus resembled, in their second-order statistics, luminance signals measured far enough apart to avoid correlation on a hypothetical stationary retina.
Therefore, to avoid missing such a hypothetical 'causative' SNP that, by chance, had a weak association in one of the studies we set a relaxed threshold (Pinteraction < 0.1) for advancing SNPs from one study to the next.
