Hypothetical vs Abstruse - What's the difference?
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Based upon a hypothesis; conjectural
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(philosophy) conditional; contingent upon some hypothesis/antecedent
A hypothetical situation or proposition
(obsolete) Concealed or hidden out of the way; secret.
* 1612 , Thomas Shelton (translator), Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish author), The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha , Part 4, Chapter 15, page 500:
* 1667 , , Paradise Lost :
Difficult to comprehend or understand; recondite; obscure; esoteric.
* 1548 , Bishop John Hooper, A Declaration of the Ten Holy Comaundementes of Almygthye God , Chapter 17 Curiosity, Page 218:
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 13.
* 1855 , , History of Latin Christianity :
As adjectives the difference between hypothetical and abstruse
is that hypothetical is based upon a hypothesis; conjectural while abstruse is concealed or hidden out of the way; secret.As a noun hypothetical
is a hypothetical situation or proposition.hypothetical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* conjectural * (contingent upon some hypothesis) conditionalAntonyms
* (actual) actual * (in philosophy) categoricalNoun
(en noun)- These hypotheticals serve no purpose until we have more information.
abstruse
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- O who is he that could carrie newes to our olde father, that thou wert but aliue, although thou wert hidden in the most abstruse dungeons of Barbarie; for his riches, my brothers and mine would fetch thee from thence.
- The eternal eye whose sight discerns abstrusest thoughts.
- ...at the end of his cogitacions, fyndithe more abstruse , and doutfull obiections then at the beginning...
- It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have the preference above the accurate and abstruse ;
- Profound and abstruse topics.