All 5 Uses of
hypothesis
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- The abnormalities of harelip, breastmole, supernumerary digits, negro's inkle, strawberry mark and portwine stain were alleged by one as a prima facie and natural hypothetical explanation of those swineheaded (the case of Madame Grissel Steevens was not forgotten) or doghaired infants occasionally born.†
Chpt 14 (definition 1)
- The hypothesis of a plasmic memory, advanced by the Caledonian envoy and worthy of the metaphysical traditions of the land he stood for, envisaged in such cases an arrest of embryonic development at some stage antecedent to the human.†
Chpt 14 (definition 1)
- What had been his hypothetical singular solutions?
Chpt 17 (definition 1) *hypothetical = based on a seemingly reasonable, but unproven, explanation of known facts
- …when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian…
Chpt 17 (definition 2) *hypothesis = something that may or may not be true, but is temporarily treated as true to advance a discussion or to further investigation
- What recurrent impressions of the same were possible by hypothesis?†
Chpt 17 (definition 1)