This can represent reasoning that is hypothetically or counterfactually defeasible, in the sense that what "follows" from a conjunctive proposition (p & q) need not be a superset of what "follows" from p alone.
Mary doubts either that one of the candidates will make a catastrophic error (Ford freeing Poland, Dukakis calmly opposing the death penalty if his wife was hypothetically murdered) or that "the debate will be a decisive moment, like the 1980 one was, since many will be waiting for the Ryan-Biden debate".
The bare sheet area was hypothetically divided into m × m small sectors (m = 4, 6, and 10).
Paul made public two letters written to him by Holder, in which the attorney general admitted that it was hypothetically possible for such a scenario to emerge.
However, it was hypothetically assumed that the building was still under construction for the experiment.
Five hundred and ninety-eight households were randomly selected by the cluster sampling technique for the first CVM scenario in which groundwater was hypothetically treated using water filtering equipment.
In fact, the men who never saw the woman showed a "marginal tendency" to want to interact with a woman who was hypothetically smarter.
Vertebroplasty was hypothetically improved by introduction of the percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty technique (Lieberman et al. 2001).
The dilution 1 10,000 was hypothetically supposed to contain 4 alleles, the 1 1,000 40 alleles and 1 100 400 alleles.
In contrast to what was hypothetically expected of the ASE model, we found no direct effect for Attitude on Intention.
To identify proteins that are hypothetically specific or at least prominent in Coffea spp. in comparison to other species, we applied OrthoMCL, a graph-clustering algorithm designed to identify homologous proteins based on sequence similarity [ 46, 47].
