And so with another form of fallacy, not substantially different from the preceding: the erroneous conversion of anhypothetical proposition.
Not only did Newton ascertain by this hypothetical process the direction of the deflecting force; he proceeded in exactly the same manner to ascertain the law of variation of the quantity of that force.
The omission is no defect in them as abstract or hypothetical sciences, but it vitiates them in their practical application as branches of a comprehensive social science.
A conclusion, therefore, however correctly deduced, in point of form, from admitted laws of nature, will have no other than an hypothetical certainty.
Accordingly, Newton could not have performed his second great scientific operation, that of identifying terrestrial gravity with the central force of the solar system, by the same hypothetical method.
Thus, notwithstanding the hypothetical nature of the above equation, it may be admitted all the more as it explains the comparative abundance of peroxide of hydrogen (Schöne, Chapter IV.
These hypothetical views simplified and generalised the study of a complicated subject, and served to support further arguments, but when salts were in question it was equally convenient to follow one or the other of these hypotheses.
Such a representation, without necessitating the absolute indivisibility of atoms, expresses all that science can require for an hypotheticalrepresentation of the constitution of matter.
On establishing the law of multiple proportions, Dalton gave a hypothetical explanation for it.
Some radicals, both simple and compound, have been isolated, while many have but a hypothetical existence.
The hypothetical compound radical of the phenyl-series.
Leaving out the hypothetical discussion of minor variations, there is a marked convergence of the evidence as to the main facts which establish the general relationships of the furfuroid group.
On these grounds it will be seen we are reduced to a somewhat speculative treatment of the hypothetical ultimate unit group, which is taken as of C{6} dimensions.
He therefore gave to this hypotheticalanimal the name of gastraea.
He therefore gave to that hypothetical ancestor the name of parenchymella.
All inference is either immediate, as in the case of hypothetical reasoning, whether conjunctive or disjunctive, or else mediate, as in the syllogism.
Had the search been made, an actual planet would have been seen shining there, close to the spot where the pencil of the mathematician had placed its hypothetical counterpart.
But theirhypothetical character does not arise from the essential nature of the theory in itself after its truth has been granted.
The electrons are only hypothetical in so far as we are not quite certain that the electron theory is true.
In ourhypothetical world (3), inhabited by nothing but plants, death must have very early resulted from the struggle for existence: many of the crowd must have jostled one another out of the conditions on which life depends.
It seems to me that, on a survey of all the facts of the case, only a very cautious and hypothetical judgment is justifiable.
Therefore, the supposition of a free inflow of the Arctic Ocean, which at one time was generally received, as well as that of various hypothetical deluges from that quarter, must be seriously questioned.
Happily, the future of palaeontology is independent of all hypothetical considerations.
A prophecy may be hazarded that in the future these applications will unify themselves into a mathematical theory of a hypothetical substructure of the universe, uniform under all the diverse phenomena.
But these estimates are uncertain, not only from the somewhat hypothetical character of the data on which they rest, but from the difficulty of accurately estimating the brightness of such an object in the glare of the planet.
But fortunately we are not left to rely upon any such hypothetical evidence in this matter, however probable it may appear.
They merely give an interpretation of hypothetical conceptions which are supposed to be original, and it is from these that the gods of actual belief are derived.
He decided to wrap it up in a hypothetical situation.
Norman Lockyer, and ascribed by him to a hypothetical element helium.
He is a hypothetical person used for purposes of illustration and simplification.
Nothing shall induce me to darken human homes, to destroy human festivities, to insult human gifts and human benefactions for the sake of some hypothetical knowledge which Nature curtained from our eyes.
His positive evidence was, however, called into question by those who doubted on account of hypothetical considerations.
It will be noticed that all these objections (save in the case of the intestinal spiral valve) are hypothetical and vague.
If these views be at all reasonable, it seems unnecessary to call to our aid hypothetical changes in the position of the earth's axis.
There is a story here that, in a recent hypothetical case, the Law Officers of the Crown decided in favour of the right of the United States to take Mason and Slidell out of a British ship or postal packet.
Finally Sinful, scorning a shouted ruling on a hypothetical question concerning the law of averages, turned suddenly and appealed to the marshal, whose smiling reply was not a confirmation of the appellant's claim.
Put them into circulation and the hypothetical differences rapidly increase, since no two of the coins can possibly receive the same treatment in their travelings.
Now, after the soul had been forced into the categorical judgment, and the hypothetical was set apart for the world, there remained for the third Idea nothing but the disjunctive major.
The hypothetical and disjunctive judgments are assertions as to the relation of two (in the case of the disjunctive judgment even several) categorical judgments to each other.
But they again connect these judgments, for the hypothetical form expresses their dependence upon each other, and the disjunctive their incompatibility.
These must now proceed from the form of the hypothetical syllogism.
The hypothetical judgment in general is the abstract expression of that most universal form of all our knowledge, the principle of sufficient reason.
Therefore the hypothetical and the disjunctive combination are properly no special forms of the judgment; for they are only applied to already completed judgments, in which the combination of the concepts remains unchanged the categorical.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hypothetical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
