Martin Seligman

Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.

American Psychologist

Charles Soule

I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books I've written, just out of context, hopefully you would be able to determine who said what. That's the goal, anyway. I try to strongly differentiate through dialogue.

American Author

Lewis B. Smedes

Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.

Jenny Zhang

Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.

Chinese Actress

Robert Lanza

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

American Scientist

Ryan Mason

That's all hypothetical - if we win, if we do this.' I've said all along my only focus is on the next game, I'm really not silly enough to starting thinking ahead of certain situations.

Nora Fatehi

I welcome people into my life. If they are genuine, they will stay, and if not, they might just leave. Hypothetically speaking, that's their loss. I keep it moving.

Canadian Dancer

Mark Helprin

The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual.

American Novelist

Andrew Sarris

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

American Critic

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I don't answer deeply hypothetical questions.

British Politician

Used when discussing scenarios that have not happened, often to explore possible outcomes.

Imaginary Conditions

Raises 'what if' questions that can lead to lively debates or profound analysis.

Discussion Stimulator

Helps to brainstorm and plan for various possible scenarios, even unlikely ones.

Problem-Solving Tool

Observe the form of statements rather than their factual content for logical arguments.

Logical Structures

Important for constructing arguments where one circumstance depends on another.

Conditional Reasoning

Especially used in philosophical or scholarly texts, less in everyday language.

Academic Approach

 the way that she communicates she's actually one of the clearest communicators we've ever measured the third distinguishing factor we found about visionaries is we thought they would be power driven and hypothetical but in fact when visionaries talk they use sixty percent more second person pronouns like you and your and there's

How visionary leaders...

 touch turns out to be crucial for romance. In this experiment, not realizing the study had begun, participants were asked to briefly hold the coffee, either hot or iced. Later, the participants read a story about a hypothetical person, and were asked to rate their personality.

The science of...

 sometimes known as a lurking variable, which is a hidden additional factor that significantly influences results. Here, the hidden factor is the relative proportion of patients who arrive in good or poor health. Simpson's paradox isn't just a hypothetical scenario.

How statistics can be...

 But these machines can only construct gold atom by atom. So it would take almost the age of the universe to produce one gram at a cost vastly exceeding the current value of gold. So that's not a very good solution. But if we were to reach a hypothetical point

Where does gold come...

 will yield 'ozo' if the hypothetical question is true and 'ulu' if it's false regardless of what each word actually means. Unfortunately, this doesn't help us with Arr. But don't worry, we can use our first question to identify one alien lord

Can you solve the three...

 new mental habits, new habits of mind. And these include things like clothing that concrete world with classification, introducing abstractions that we try to make logically consistent, and also taking the hypothetical seriously,

Why our IQ levels are...

 In his denial, Armstrong described a hypothetical situation focused on someone else, removing himself from the situation entirely. In his admission, he owns his statements, delving into his personal emotions and motivations.

The language of lying —...

 there is an 8% chance that the hot object would get hotter. Why doesn't this ever happen in real life? It's all about the size of the system. Our hypothetical solids only had six bonds each.

What is entropy? - Jeff...

 to address the complex problem of programming ethics into machines, which goes to show that even hypothetical dilemmas can wind up on a collision course with the real world.

Would you sacrifice one...

 learning world hunger issue and I were to hypothetically be Clint