Sentence examples for hypothetical world from inspiring English sources

In this hypothetical world, you can assume 12 percent, and if you're wrong, you're in big trouble.

Try as we might, in Professor Mankiw's hypothetical world we could not avoid rationing the pill openly.

In this hypothetical world, a power ranking based on team record would be an exercise in self-delusion.

I spent three years writing this story, during which time I passed its hypothetical world through myself as a simulation.

Perhaps the most overt way of "creating the record" in fiction is to rewrite history entirely, to place credible characters in a hypothetical world.

But SBW's return to the international stage adds an element of fascination and, in that hypothetical World Cup final side, he would at least be on the bench.

An economics department ought not to be about speculation and hypothetical worlds".

A recurring theme of Gopnik's is the idea that playful immersion in freely conjured hypothetical worlds is what teaches us how to make sense of the real one.

According to rational choice theory, some of the predictions governing these hypothetical worlds are common sense: people should prefer more to less, firms should only do things that make a profit and, if the price is right, you should be prepared to give up anything you own.

The PNDE is also a comparison of 2 hypothetical worlds where X is set to 0 or 1 but M is set to take its natural value M 0).

The TNIE is a comparison of 2 hypothetical worlds in which X is set to 1 in both, while M changes from its natural value when X is 1 to its natural value when X is 0. Intuitively, this is an indirect effect, since it captures the part of the effect of X on Y that is transmitted by M.