So long as Holtspur lived, and loved her, she felt that she could be happy-even under those circumstances hypothetically foreshadowed in his parting speeches.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
He puts the question hypothetically, or he suggests immortality as an alternative to extinction at death.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
The facts being out of the reach of being observed, in any such manner as would have enabled the senses to identify directly the path of the planet, the conception requisite for framing a general description of that path could not be collected by abstraction from the observations themselves; the mind had to supply hypothetically, from among the conceptions it had obtained from other portions of its experience, some one which would correctly represent the series of the observed facts.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill