Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Based on supposition; supposed; hypothetical; conjectural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.
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- adjective Resting on
supposition ;hypothetical ;conjectural .
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- adjective based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
Etymologies
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Examples
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In §3 we examine what I call the suppositional theory: that conditional judgements essentially involve suppositions.
Conditionals Edgington, Dorothy 2006
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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".
Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010
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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".
Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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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
Arguing With Geeks 9 Hal Duncan 2009
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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
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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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.
On Faith Hal Duncan 2008
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An equally viable (and equally suppositional) reading is possible in which the grim desolation is that of some sort of existentialist Hell.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008
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An equally viable (and equally suppositional) reading is possible in which the grim desolation is that of some sort of existentialist Hell.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-12-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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And the evidence for evolution is not such suppositional as you imply: it is extremely strong, convergent, and compelling.
Waldo Jaquith - Supermajority of Republicans are creationists. 2007
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