| 释义 |
hypothetically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a hypothetical manner or form; by or upon a hypothesis or supposition; conjecturally, supposedly; conditionally.
1628T. Spencer Logick 298 How many wayes a Syllogisme is made Hypothetically. 1665Hooke Microgr. 67 Thus have I..endeavoured to explicate (Hypothetically at least) the causes of the Phænomena. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. (1707) IV. 78 Both agree in this that God might Absolutely do it, and that Hypothetically he could not, i.e. supposing him to act consistently with the Moral Perfections of his Nature. 1789Burke Corr. (1844) III. 113 In my present want of information I must only speak hypothetically. 1864Bowen Logic viii. 266 Any Immediate Inference, also, may be stated hypothetically. |