Meanings
- uncountableAn idea which is discovered to be true in itself, or which supports itself; that which is absolutely or necessarily true; as opposed to a hypothesis requiring further support. The result or conclusion of a philosophical argument or investigation according to Plato's "hypothetical method."
Only the supreme science, dialectics, attempts to justify these hypotheses by reducing them to the first principle, the Good, which is itself anypotheton, unconditional.
2005, Carlos Steel, Theology as First Philosophy: The Neoplatonic Concept of MetaphysicsSynonyms: [the] unhypothetical, [the] unconditional
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn idea which is discovered to be true in itself, or which supports itself; that which is absolutely or necessarily true; as opposed to a hypothesis requiring further support. The result or conclusion of a philosophical argument or investigation according to Plato's "hypothetical method."
Origin
- Ancient Greekὑπόθεσις“base, basis of an argument, supposition”
- Ancient Greekανυπόθετον
- Englishanypotheton
From Ancient Greek ανυπόθετον (anupótheton), negation of Ancient Greek ὑπόθεσις (hupóthesis, “base, basis of an argument, supposition”, literally “a placing under”), itself from ὑπό (hupó, “below”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”).
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