Definitions for hypotheticals
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1. Hypotheticals

   Hypotheticals are situations, statements or questions about something imaginary rather than something real. Hypotheticals deal with the concept of "what if?"'. Grammatically, the term is a noun formed from an adjective, and the word is pluralized because it refers to the members of a class of hypothetical things. Hypotheticals are very important because they provide a means for understanding what we would do if the world was different. Although this may assist our understanding of risk, and help us plan and create a new and better future, hypotheticals also help us understand the past, and why things happened or how things work. For example, in seeking to understand why a war started we could ask: "What if the parties had talked more first? Would they have worked out a better way of solving their problems? Could war have been averted?" Hypotheticals about the past are challenging to consider, as it is not possible to enter the past to change things according to our hypotheticals and determine what then may have occurred. The philosopher David Lewis suggested in his book Counterfactuals that when we use hypotheticals, what we mean is: "In an imaginary world, exactly like ours, except in the one difference we are talking about ...". This idea is often called "possible worlds" and some people believe they actually exist, only we can't get to them, because the whole point is that they are different to our world.

How to pronounce hypotheticals?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hypotheticals in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hypotheticals in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of hypotheticals in a Sentence

1. Orrin Hatch:

   Rather than answer a bunch of hypotheticals, I'll do what I did in the Clinton -- when Ken Starr issued Ken Starr report. I read it, I'll make a decision.

2. Robert Mueller:

   So that was Justice Department policy, those were the principles under which we operated, and from them, we concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the President committed a crime. That is the office's final position. And we will not comment on any other conclusions or hypotheticals about the President.

3. Link Starbureiy:

   Dealing in hypotheticals is a futile cause with no effect on any actuality. All potentials lead to the one reality you are experiencing right now.

4. Jacinda Ardern:

   If the United States, it turns out, do genuinely wish to rejoin, that triggers a whole new process, there would be another process and so, at this stage we are talking hypotheticals.

5. Armstrong Williams:

   Dr. Carson is very dismissive of the question because it was hypothetical and Dr. Carson does not answer in hypotheticals. And so he intentionally did not answer the question, dr. Carson is still on a learning curve.

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References

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