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hypothetic, a. and n.|hɪp-, haɪpəˈθɛtɪk|
[ad. Gr. ὑποθετικ-ός, pertaining to ὑπόθεσις: see hypothesis. Cf. F. hypothétique.]
A. adj. = next.
a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 66 On hypothetic Dreams and Visions Grounds everlasting Disquisitions. 1701Norris Ideal World i. ii. 94 That which gives it the form of a hypothetic, and distinguishes it from a categoric proposition. 1813Shelley Notes Q. Mab Poet. Wks. (1891) 47/1 Admitting the existence of this hypothetic being. 1876R. Noel in Macm. Mag. XXXIV. 334 How these hypothetic entities [atoms] pulsate and radiate, whirl and travel. 1897Allbutt Syst. Med. II. 5 This effect was ascribed to the presence of a hypothetic body.
B. n.
†1. A hypothetical statement, a hypothesis; in Logic, a hypothetical proposition or syllogism (= next, B). Obs.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 48 Modest Hypotheticks, not any ways informing the Understanding. 1701Norris Ideal World i. ii. 122 This double hypothetic, that if the proposition be true the extremes do really exist, and..that unless the extremes do really exist the proposition cannot be true.
2. n. pl. The making of hypotheses; hypothesizing.
1890A. Lang Life Sir Stafford Northcote (ed. 2) II. xiii. 89 That belongs to the science of hypothetics, and anyone may sincerely believe that matters might have been kept quiet by a sagacious and well-informed policy. 1958New Biol. XXV. 15 Perhaps we shall be helped to estimate its importance by an exercise in hypothetics. |