I mean that, in attempting to state the PROXIMATE cause of the present event, some past event or events must be included, unless we take refuge in
hypothetical modifications of brain structure.) For example: you smell peat-smoke, and you recall some occasion when you smelt it before.
Astor to Captain Sowle, the commander of the Beaver, were, in some respects,
hypothetical, in consequence of the uncertainty resting upon the previous steps of the enterprise.
That was a
hypothetical case, arising out of Sir Leicester's unconsciously carrying the matter with so high a hand.
If this be truly the case, the
hypothetical dread of the too great weight of the Senate ought to be discarded from our reasonings.
Presents are made to the Boffin servants, and bland strangers with business- cards meeting said servants in the street, offer
hypothetical corruption.
Of course the dilemma was purely
hypothetical; since he wasn't a blackguard Polish nobleman, it was absurd to speculate what his wife's rights would be if he WERE.
Thus:--There are two subdivisions, in the lower or which the soul uses the figures given by the former division as images; the enquiry can only be
hypothetical, and instead of going upwards to a principle descends to the other end; in the higher of the two, the soul passes out of hypotheses, and goes up to a principle which is above hypotheses, making no use of images as in the former case, but proceeding only in and through the ideas themselves.
Wopsle reviewed the sermon with some severity, and intimated - in the usual
hypothetical case of the Church being "thrown open" - what kind of sermon he would have given them.
The second question is not less delicate; and the flattering prospect of its being merely
hypothetical forbids an overcurious discussion of it.
This idea is le bien public, the
hypothetical welfare of other people.
The body of the telegram was devoted to
hypothetical topics in order to show him the freedom of range that was to be his.
The Protagoras arrived at a sort of
hypothetical conclusion, that if 'virtue is knowledge, it can be taught.' In the Euthydemus, Socrates himself offered an example of the manner in which the true teacher may draw out the mind of youth; this was in contrast to the quibbling follies of the Sophists.