In the hypothetical example, this would assist the litigation process, because for example, if the injured person states that the driver ought to have alerted the third party, the driver may be aware that the law imposes no such duty, and can issue a motion ( or application ) to the court to have that part of the claim dismissed.

The territorial claim by the Republic of the Marshall Islands on Wake Atoll leaves a certain amount of ambiguity regarding the actual or hypothetical role of the US military, responsible under agreement for the defense of Marshallese territory, in the event of any strategic crisis or hostilities involving Wake.

Theories which claim that morality is derived from reasoning about implied imperatives ( universal prescriptivism ), the edicts of a god ( divine command theory ), or the hypothetical decrees of a perfectly rational being ( ideal observer theory ), are considered anti-realist in the robust sense used here, but are considered realist in the sense synonymous with moral universalism.

" Consider a hypothetical claim that quarks are " socially constructed ".

Seeing as it concerned the transfer of Palestinians to this hypothetical designated state without their consent, and that Jordan was far from enthusiastic to allocate its own territory for the sake of a Palestinian state ( having reneged on its claim to the West Bank and taken away citizenship of the Palestinians living there in 1988 ), this idea came to be seen as irrelevant by the majority of Israelis and Palestinians.

Thus, several places claim to host this hypothetical centre.

To say, with the Baianists, that the papal act condemns not the real and concrete tenets of the Louvain professor, but only certain hypothetical or imaginary propositions ; to claim that the censure is aimed not at the underlying teaching, but only at the vehemence or harshness of the outward expressions, is to practically stultify the pontifical document.

When a hypothetical dilemma was given to 24 people and according to the dilemma they had the capability of pushing a stranger in front of a train so they could rescue five people, individuals who had taken selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors were not as likely to support the idea of pushing the person.

For example if a person is charged with speeding, in a hypothetical case the prosecution has to prove that the person was the driver of the motor vehicle and that it was being driven in excess of the proper speed without any lawful excuse.

It would be very difficult to explain love to a hypothetical person who had not himself or herself experienced love or being loved.

He gives some hypothetical examples as illustrations to his thesis: that of a person, feeling horrified after witnessing a personal feud, coughing blood, or that of the impulse felt to save a person who drowns in the water.

The ' archangel ' is the hypothetical person who has perfect knowledge of the situation and no personal biases or weaknesses and always uses critical moral thinking to decide the right thing to do ; the ‘ prole ’ is the hypothetical person who is completely incapable of critical thinking and uses nothing but intuitive moral thinking and, of necessity, has to follow the general moral rules they have been taught or learned through imitation.

The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would likely find the behaviour induced by humour to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational.

Speculation about the ' real person ' behind the guises of the dream-surrogates or about the function of the dream in relation to the unresolved stresses of this hypothetical mind is fruitless, for the tensions and psychological problems in Finnegans Wake concern the dream-figures living within the book itself.

The center of population is a hypothetical point at which a country is perfectly balanced assuming each person has a uniform weight.

Most ends are of a subjective kind, because they need only be pursued if they are in line with some particular hypothetical imperative that a person may choose to adopt.

" However, the rumour was discredited by Efteling: one of the causes of the rumour was an off-hand remark by a PR person for Efteling, who had dropped to reporters that Disney could well have visited Efteling — the reporters accordingly dropped the hypothetical from the phrase, and a legend was born.

* eponym: a botanical, zoological, artwork, or place name that derives from a real or legendary person ; a name for a real or hypothetical person from whom a botanical, geographical, artwork or zoological name is derived ; a person after whom a medical condition is named, or the condition so named.

Generally there is, however, no need to point to an actual comparator, so a claimant can allege they were treated less favourably than a hypothetical person who does not share their trait would have been.

Hindsight bias has been found to take place in both memory for experienced situations ( events that the person is familiar with ) and hypothetical situations ( made up events where the person must imagine being involved ).

" Any connection between the governor mentioned by Sargon and the Median dynasty of later periods is thus only hypothetical ; there is not a single authentic cuneiform source to confirm that Sargon ’ s Daiukku and Herodotus ’ Deioces were the same person.

The man on the Clapham omnibus is a hypothetical reasonable person, used by the courts in English law where it is necessary to decide whether a party has acted in the way that a reasonable person should-for example, in a civil action for negligence.

Our hypothetical other bum who killed him would have turned out his pockets.

We discussed the candle and decided the hypothetical other bum would have left it burning to light his way to the window and because he'd have no reason to blow it out.

Price wrote that the hypothetical " next world would be realms of real mental images.

A 2008 quantum physics experiment performed in Geneva, Switzerland has determined that in any hypothetical nonlocal hidden-variables theory the speed of the quantum non-local connection would have to be at least 10, 000 times the speed of light.

He fundamentally defined his arbitrary orientation for the cell as being that in which the internal current would run parallel to and in the same direction as a hypothetical magnetizing current loop around the local line of latitude which would induce a magnetic dipole field oriented like the Earth's.

He fundamentally defined his arbitrary orientation for the cell as being that in which the internal current would run parallel to and in the same direction as a hypothetical magnetizing current loop around the local line of latitude which would induce a magnetic dipole field oriented like the Earth's.

Formally, oxidation state is the hypothetical charge that an atom would have if all bonds to atoms of different elements were 100 % ionic.

According to phenomenalism, to say that a normal observer is present is to make the hypothetical statement that were a doctor to inspect the observer, the observer would appear to the doctor to be normal.

If time, space, and energy are secondary features derived from a substrate below the Planck scale, then Einstein's hypothetical algebraic system might resolve the EPR paradox ( although Bell's theorem would still be valid ).

There may be hypothetical elementary particles not described by the Standard Model, such as the graviton, the particle that would carry the gravitational force, and sparticles, supersymmetric partners of the ordinary particles.

To counteract the unstable nature, and prevent the distortions from collapsing under their own ' weight ', one would need to introduce hypothetical exotic matter or negative energy.

According to thinkers in the social contract tradition, justice is derived from the mutual agreement of everyone concerned ; or, in many versions, from what they would agree to under hypothetical conditions including equality and absence of bias.

Another measure such as life expectancy at age 5 ( e < sub > 5 </ sub >) can be used to exclude the effect of infant mortality to provide a simple measure of overall mortality rates other than in early childhood — in the hypothetical population above, life expectancy at age 5 would be another 65 years.

**** Ideal observer theory holds that what is right is determined by the attitudes that a hypothetical ideal observer would have.

In the Middle Irish period the name is often spelled Mórrígan with a lengthening diacritic over the ' o ', seemingly intended to mean " Great Queen " ( Old Irish mór, ' great '; this would derive from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic * Māra Rīganī-s ).

" One plausible view is that Nazōraean ( Ναζωραῖος ) is a normal Greek adaptation of a reconstructed, hypothetical term in Jewish Aramaic for the word later used in Rabbinical sources to refer to Jesus .< ref > G. F. Moore, ‘ Nazarene and Nazareth ,’ in The Beginnings of Christianity 1 / 1, 1920 pp. 426-432, according to which Hebrew Nôṣri the gentilic used of Jesus from the Tannaitic period onwards, would have corresponded to a hypothetical Jewish Aramaic * Nōṣrāyā, which would have in turn produced * N < sup >< span style =" font-size: 80 %"> e </ span ></ sup > ṣōrāyā.

* Pentaneutron: Calculations indicate that the hypothetical pentaneutron state, consisting of a cluster of five neutrons, would not be bound.

When particles in a beam are thrown against a foil made of a certain substance, the cross section is a hypothetical area measure around the target particles of the substance ( usually its atoms ) that represents a surface.

In current usage, a paraphyletic group consists of all of the descendants of a possibly hypothetical closest common ancestor minus one or more monophyletic groups ( most usually one ).

Antenna gain is usually defined as the ratio of the power produced by the antenna from a far-field source on the antenna's beam axis to the power produced by a hypothetical lossless isotropic antenna, which is equally sensitive to signals from all directions.

Korean reunification ( Korean: 통일, also called 남북통일 ( in the South, literally South-North Reunification ), 북남통일 ( in the North, literally North – South Reunification ) and 조국통일 ( usually in the North, literally Homeland Reunification ) refers to the hypothetical future reunification of DPR Korea and Republic of Korea under a single government.

A hypothetical kinetic weapon that travels at a significant fraction of the speed of light, usually found in science fiction, is termed a relativistic kill vehicle ( RKV ).

A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon, or collection of weapons — which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly the Earth, or destroy the planet itself, bringing " doomsday ", a term used for the end of planet Earth.

Examinations usually entail interpreting the facts of a hypothetical case, determining how legal theories apply to the case, and then writing an essay.

It is used in condition clauses and some others to express a hypothetical circumstance, usually one contrary to fact, but not relating specifically to the past:

Repressed memory, also known as recovered memory, is a hypothetical concept used to describe a significant memory, usually of a traumatic nature, that has become unavailable for recall ; also called motivated forgetting in which a subject blocks out painful or traumatic times in one's life.

Smartdust is a hypothetical system of many tiny microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ) such as sensors, robots, or other devices, that can detect, for example, light, temperature, vibration, magnetism or chemicals ; are usually networked wirelessly ; and are distributed over some area to perform tasks, usually sensing.

The majority of inventions are usually not challenged as lacking utility, but the doctrine prevents the patenting of fantastic or hypothetical devices such as perpetual motion machines.

In this sense the use the term " contraposition " is usually referred to by " transposition " when applied to hypothetical propositions or material implications.

However all the modal preterites can be used in such clauses with certain types of hypothetical future reference: if I should lose or should I lose ( equivalent to if I lose ); if you would / might / could stop doing that ( usually used as a form of request ).

World War III, World War Three or Third World War generally refers to a hypothetical future World War, usually fought with nuclear weapons, but thought to be occurring or already have occurred, such as the alternate definitions of the Cold War and / or the War on Terror.

The hypothetical speaker is usually, by convention, called " Tom " ( or " he " or " she "), unless some other name is needed for the pun ( as in the Marie Curie and Lord Nelson examples above ).

In theoretical physics, a preferred or privileged frame is usually a special hypothetical frame of reference in which the laws of physics might appear to be identifiably different ( simpler ) from those in other frames.