“hypothetico”

The following 2 entries include the term hypothetico.

hypothetico-deductive

adjective

: relating to, being, or making use of the method of proposing hypotheses and testing their acceptability or falsity by determining whether their logical consequences are consistent with observed data

hypothetico-disjunctive

adjective

: of, relating to, or constituting a logical proposition that combines hypothesis and disjunction


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