Sentence examples for hypothetical thought from inspiring English sources

Consequently, hypothetical thought experiments provide appropriate test cases for various analyses, as we shall see below.

The social contract, according to Kant, is thus a hypothetical thought experiment, meant to capture an idea of public reason.

Here's a hypothetical thought: What if you are the best in the world at what you do?

In this hypothetical thought experiment, we can think of different methods that yield identical Youden's indices calculated from different TPR and FPR values.

Given that his discourse theory in general, and thus (U) in particular, rests on counterfactual idealizations, one might be tempted to regard (U) as a hypothetical thought experiment, analogous to what we find in other neo-Kantian or contractualist theories like those of John Rawls and T. M. Scanlon.

He also told them his diary and the plans in it were "hypothetical, just thoughts and feelings", and that he showed it to a mental health worker, the entries acting as "basically a sort of therapy".

And analysis is the evocation of insight by the hypothetical suggestions of thought, and the evocation of thought by the activities of direct insight.

In other words, though many call any counter-factual or hypothetical situation a thought experiment, this seems too encompassing.

Don't get me wrong, these hypotheticals are fascinating thought experiments, and may well invoke fond memories of Ethics 101's trolley experiment.

In the context of Dworkin's hypothetical insurance market thought-experiment, these background intuitions might well be guiding our judgment as to which characteristics the average person would choose to insure him/herself against (and hence our view about which characteristics count as a kind of resource-deficit).

In political thought, however, hypothetical consent has increasingly played a central role in justifying particular accounts of justice and legitimacy.