Sentence examples for mere hypothetical from inspiring English sources

This is no mere hypothetical.

This is not some mere hypothetical risk – over 90% of cervical cancers are caused by HPV, a cancer which claimed the lives of 270,000 women in 2012 alone.

Participants who were in this situation might have been more willing to undergo surgery than patients for whom TKR was a mere hypothetical option.

The fact that the students were first-years presents some problems when it comes to the part of the questionnaire related to their future expectations, as their judgement on that is not based on real experience, but mere hypothetical thinking.

This hypothetical problem is not merely hypothetical.

The more they talk, however, the more they all appear hobbled by their own histrionics -- tossing out perverse intellectual jokes and clusters of quotations, for instance -- as if their rebellions were really hypothetical, virtual, mere imaginary exercises with mental puppets.

Consider a hypothetical internet of a mere 20bn documents that is comprised one half "adult" content, and one half "child-safe" content.

If that is all Spinoza intended to say about the modal status of finite modes, then perhaps his fiery denials of contingency should be read as affirmations of universal hypothetical necessity (sometimes called "mere determinism"), and not universal absolute necessity.

Roughly, mere supposition is what is involved in simple cases of hypothetical reasoning, whereas vivid imagination is what is involved in aesthetic participation, engaged pretense, or absorbing games of make-believe.

Lowell's hypothetical "Planet X" is eventually declared non-existent; its proximity to the real Pluto a mere coincidence.

"I would think that the mere specification of what contractors you can use doesn't rise to the level of transforming Medicaid and so... NY's hypothetical challenge would fail," he wrote to HuffPost.