suppositional

IPA: sʌpʌzˈɪʃʌnʌɫ

adjective

  • Relating to, or based on, supposition; hypothetical; conjectural.
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Examples of "suppositional" in Sentences

  • In §3 we examine what I call the suppositional theory: that conditional judgements essentially involve suppositions.
  • And the evidence for evolution is not such suppositional as you imply: it is extremely strong, convergent, and compelling.
  • An equally viable (and equally suppositional) reading is possible in which the grim desolation is that of some sort of existentialist Hell.
  • I have an inkling that a narrative dynamics based in modality could be factored up to a narrative logic, an informal logic that I'm sorely tempted to call a "suppositional calculus".
  • Any ideology may take the form of a categorical faith or a suppositional theory; a distinction should perhaps be made, therefore, between Absolute ISMs and Relative ISMs. posted by Hal Duncan | 5: 45 PM
  • Just as every model is built from the ruins of those made obsolete (disproven, shown to be not completely relevant) by the specific details of established fact, each becomes in turn a suppositional orthodoxy held to by the conservative.

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