Sentences with phrase «only hypothetical»

Remember, the assumptive interest rate is only a hypothetical illustration of how well your policy may perform in ideal conditions.

So Wojick is saying that modulation of the radiative transfer leading to temperature change is only a hypothetical premise.

Nowhere in the anals of physics has anyone claimed that «the science is settled», or «the science is solid», or any similar expression, on the basis of only hypothetical numbers, based largely on the output of non-validated models.

I think a comprehensive (and honest) assessment of alternatives to coal generation will include not only the hypothetical scaling issues of wind and direct solar generation but also will address what we know of the operating record of nuclear plants and what we can expect as we attempt to further scale nuclear power.

Of course, these are only hypothetical portfolios designed for 8 types of investors with very different circumstances and goals.

That's why this illustration is only hypothetical.

It uses a variety of tools including VERITAS, AUGER and COUPP — dedicated telescopes, water tanks and underground «bubble chambers» — to observe known particles and to search for those that are so far only hypothetical, such as the dark - matter WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles).

Rejuvenated planets, as they are nicknamed, are only hypothetical.

We did this by considering not only the hypothetical reduction that would occur if everyone undertook each action but by looking at what is behaviorally realistic,» explains ecologist and sociologist Thomas Dietz of Michigan State University, one of the authors of the study laying out the possibilities in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

He lost some negotiating leverage but that money was only hypothetical unless they could convince the league to make him a wide receiver.

This does not mean, however, that what we have hypothetically reconstructed, the genetic phases, have only a hypothetical status.

The last one is only hypothetical, so it shouldn't count.

I distinguish here the use of the term «epistemology»» from «phenomenology»» in the sense that phenomenology analyzes the givenness of objects to consciousness, an exercise that may be carried our «without particular metaphysical commitments (requiring only a hypothetical ontology), whereas epistemology seeks to analyze how we or any being can know what really is.

Writing more than 200 years ago, he believed this point to be only hypothetical; we know that we have now reached it.

Thus while we can identify a concept of the church against which a dominant strand in recent theology has reacted, we can make only a hypothetical construction of what might have resulted had historical questions of institutional continuity been pursued.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that Canadian automotive assemblers will lose market share in the United States because American tariffs on cars assembled in Japan are lowered (and, again, this is only a hypothetical).

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The logic of his argument — which was purely a «counterfactual» hypothetical — is that investors would stop pouring money into marginally profitable «zombie» companies, leaving only the gazelles to speed ahead.

An investor who panicked and only later re-entered the market would have found that his bank account at the end of the bet was a lot smaller than a hypothetical account in which he earned the index - fund returns for the whole period.»

Actionable: If you own a hypothetical surfboard company, and you only operate online, you can benefit.

For this exercise, we simplified the SaaS Quick Ratio to only measure new MRR and churned MRR (omitting upsells and downsells) and we started the hypothetical company with $ 200k in MRR.

The mortgage rate and payment results you see on these calculators are hypothetical and illustrative only and do not reflect your actual mortgage loan situation or needs.

Any examples used in this material are generic, hypothetical and for illustration purposes only.

The example is hypothetical and provided for illustrative purposes only.

The NWQ Fiduciary Model Portfolio is a hypothetical model portfolio only, comprised of actual investment funds that have reported monthly net performance during the time period shown.

This hypothetical example is for illustrative purposes only.

* Qualified appraisal by qualified appraiser received prior to sale † Hypothetical case study, for illustrative purposes only.

* This value is hypothetical, for illustrative purposes only, and does not account for possible valuation discounts due to restrictions on the shares, if any.

In the second scenario above, our hypothetical borrower enrolling in REPAYE with grad school debt would pay back more money than in any other repayment plan, and have only $ 4,033 in principal and interest forgiven after making 300 monthly payments.

«Charlie made me focus on the merits of a great business with tremendously growing earnings power - but only when you can be sure of it - not like Texas Instruments or Polaroid, where the earnings power was hypothetical.»

In this hypothetical — but not completely farfetched — situation, the effective average interest rate on the US government's debt would only be 2 %.

Although the performance results and share sizes displayed on this page are from the actual entry and exit prices listed in our trading newsletter, all performance data on this page, and throughout our web site, is hypothetical and for educational purposes only.

It is undesirable because the universe without «us» in it is not the universe we actually live in — it's a hypothetical nonexistent universe that exists only in theory.

To sort out this conflicting picture, Cornelissen and his colleagues asked 84 undergraduates what they would do in a hypothetical dilemma where a runaway trolley is on a collision course with five people, and the only way to save them is to flip a switch, reroute the trolley and kill one person.

It is therefore reasonable to conclude that if the limb size in our hypothetical population evolved in the most conservative manner, it need only increase at a rate of 0.005 cm per generation (= 50 cm / 10, 000 generations), despite its abrupt appearance in the geological record.

The danger is hypothetical, but only in part.

Is it to say the only «knowledge» we have of appearances, of the genetic process of decision and change, is hypothetical, derived as one of an indefinite number of possible divisions of the actual entity (cf. PR 28)?

That is so hypothetical and improbable you may as well say legislation is the only way we are going to get leprechauns elected as Senators.

And again, this is only one hypothetical among an unknowable number of alternatives.

We haven't even touched on songs that suggest that life is super-duper when you're a Christian («And in His presence, our problems disappear» [Jesus, We Celebrate Your Victory; John Gibson]-RRB-, songs that are all a bit too hypothetical («I can only imagine What it will be like» [I Can Only Imagine; Bart Millard]-RRB-, or songs that don't work at a men's breakfast («Rise up, women of the truth» -LRB-[Shout to the North; Martin Smith]-Ronly imagine What it will be like» [I Can Only Imagine; Bart Millard]-RRB-, or songs that don't work at a men's breakfast («Rise up, women of the truth» -LRB-[Shout to the North; Martin Smith]-ROnly Imagine; Bart Millard]-RRB-, or songs that don't work at a men's breakfast («Rise up, women of the truth» -LRB-[Shout to the North; Martin Smith]-RRB-.

Brightman insists that we must start with our own human experience and infer the metaphysical reality only of what reasonably follows from that experience, and the contents of these inferences will never be more than hypothetical — and it is difficult to be certain how adequate they are to the phenomena, since those phenomena are not given as they are in themselves.

I see no need whatever to say that the philosophers can speak of ultimate questions only in mythological terms, however hypothetical their speculations must inevitably be.

We know of only one lineage of primates, a little animal called Purgatorius, that lived before this hypothetical asteroid hit.

The extreme hypothetical cases are of interest only insofar as they provoke the theological question: Is faith really at the mercy of the latest report on the quest for the historical Jesus?

He says I must either settle for a «merely hypothetical conclusion» or abandon the pretense that the only evidence I need is history.

It is not only the mythic beginning and ending of the Bible that have become problematic, however, but also the «hypothetical middle - Jesus of Nazareth.»

In response to this objection I can only reaffirm what I stated earlier: none of us is able to have a controlling or comprehensive knowledge of any hypothetical higher level of meaning in the cosmic hierarchy or in any supposed universal pattern of beauty.

In respect to «Universalism» and other «out - there views», allow me a hypothetical situation: what if I could prove conclusively that the Bible is full of errors; that it only represents God's mind in some instances....

Fact is only established by a «repeatable process» otherwise it is not a fact, it is a hypothetical phenomena.

This formula, whose instability is very quickly discernible, unites the claims to privilege — nothing less than a substructure of the universe is offered — with a relativization which permits concessions to other conceptions of the world: The substructure of the world is only «hypothetical.»

Above all, remember that Paul is a hypothetical man, but those who leave prisons only to be trapped in poverty and homelessness are real people.