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hypothetical

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Supposed
presupposed, suppositious, suppositional, conditional, conjectural, imagined, indeterminate, speculative, indefinite, questionable, unconfirmed, equivocal, doubtful, conjecturable, concocted, suspect, stochastic, stochastical, assumed by hypothesis, possible, uncertain, debatable, imaginary, of the nature of hypothesis, vague, theoretical, pretending, open, provisory, casual, disputable, refutable, postulational, contestable, presumptive, hypothesized, assumptive, contingent, theoretic, postulated, based on incomplete knowledge; see also assumed 1, likely 1.
Antonyms proved*, demonstrated, confirmed.
Characterized by hypothesis
postulated, academic, philosophical; see theoretical.

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adjective

Existing only in concept and not in reality:
abstract, hypothetic, ideal, theoretic, theoretical, transcendent, transcendental. See real
Presumed to be true, real, or genuine, especially on inconclusive grounds:
conjectural, hypothetic, inferential, presumptive, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive. See belief

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These theories endeavour to discover the means by which the exceptional occurrence is brought about; but the explanation is merely hypothetical, and we are not helped in conceiving the mode of the divine activity in the working of miracles.
These salts are considered to be derived from the hypothetical base OH 3.
In that hypothetical situation, what would the defense contractor want?
On examination of the metal and its salts it was shown to be identical with the hypothetical element ekasilicon, whose properties had been predicted by D.
In view of the results of this analysis, Reid's theory (and the theory of Scottish philosophy generally) has been dubbed natural realism or natural dualism, in contrast to theories like subjective idealism and materialism or to the cosmothetic idealism or hypothetical dualism of the majority of philosophers.

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