What's the difference between categorical and hypothetical?

Categorical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a category.
  • (a.) Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
  • (2) Analysis of risk factors and use of criteria for categorizing severity of disease can be helpful in designing new treatments, identifying potential recipients of such agents, and evaluating outcome of therapy.
  • (3) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
  • (4) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
  • (5) On the basis of clinical symptoms and CT scan findings, 66 patients were categorized as having sustained a RIND and 187 a stroke.
  • (6) Studies of barbiturate and benzodiazepine self-administration are categorized by species and route of administration.
  • (7) The births were categorized by maternal age, the presence or absence of four putative risk factors, and the provision or nonprovision of early prenatal care.
  • (8) Long-standing providers preferred a categorical approach in order to maintain a diverse political coalition for an historically invisible service.
  • (9) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
  • (10) The benefits of holistically identifying clients' ability to mobilize coping resources is that nurses can plan intervention more effectively if these categorizations can be consistently verified.
  • (11) To understand "what is going on" within an S&M episode, one must know something about the culture of the group and how it defines and categorized people and behavior.
  • (12) The categorization does not yield diagnoses, as there are multiple etiologies within each category.
  • (13) The patients were categorized according to DSM-III as suffering from either minor depression (including dysthymic disorder, 300.40; adjustment disorder with depressed mood, 309.00; atypical depression, 296.82) or major depression (without melancholia, 296.X2; with melancholia, 296.X3; with psychotic features, 296.X4).
  • (14) An age and prevalence study of the categorized disc showed that, with age, the disc undergoes an architectural transformation from WD through IM to ID.
  • (15) Ninety-two percent of responses were categorized as "ineffective" (i.e., not communicating own or sibling's feelings).
  • (16) ANCA-associated vasculitides can be categorized into a number of distinctive clinicopathologic categories, eg, Wegener's granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, pulmonary renal syndrome, microscopic polyarteritis nodosa, leukocytoclastic angiitis, and necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis.
  • (17) Severe iritis which occurs within the first five days after cataract extraction may be categorized as (1) bacterial endophthalmitis, (2) toxic iritis, or (3) aseptic iritis.
  • (18) Categorization of the pattern of physiologic abnormalities in patients with asbestos-associated disease may be important for clinical, compensation, and epidemiologic reasons.
  • (19) In addition, the observers categorized the proteins into three groups for purposes of analysis: a) those associated with the follicular phase of the cycle; b) those associated with the luteal phase; and c) those not cycle-related.
  • (20) A review of the studies shows that animal demonstrate categorical perception of the voicing and place features.

Hypothetical


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pathomechanism, how C. pylori facilitates the development of peptic ulcer is since hypothetical.
  • (2) The model is based on the concept that a cell with hypothetically unlimited replicative potential--i.e.
  • (3) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
  • (4) The possible roles of the sorbitol pathway and of hypothetical regulatory sites for the glucose molecule ("receptors") are briefly discussed.
  • (5) By analysis of the three sequences we were able to delineate a hypothetic model for region X domain evolution and discussed the origin of genetic variability within and without strains.
  • (6) For now, it is a hypothetical danger and England cannot be doing too badly if the worst controversy about Hodgson's squad is who goes as reserve left-back.
  • (7) On the basis of these data, a hypothetical molecular mechanism of vestibular efferent modulation of the primary afferent pathway is proposed.
  • (8) A hypothetical scheme is presented that pursues the processes involved in invasion from the biochemical events generated by attachment of the parasite, to the steric rearrangement of red cell membrane proteins, which culminates in invasion.
  • (9) Samples taken by Monte Carlo means from a hypothetical in vitro population were compared with clonal survival data obtained experimentally.
  • (10) A hypothetical model is proposed in which prevention of ulcer formation or accelerated healing of ulcers by conventional therapies may be FGF dependent.
  • (11) In Experiment 1, subjects exposed to a sound representing their heartbeat made greater self-attributions for hypothetical outcomes than did subjects exposed to the same sound identified as an extraneous noise.
  • (12) The hypothetical pattern is regenerative and shows how epithelial cell patterns where cells divide might arise.
  • (13) First-year student nurses attributed less pain to the hypothetical patient than third- and fourth-year student nurses and registered nurses.
  • (14) Problems which have arisen and considerations on the hypothetic future interventions are considered.
  • (15) The authors surveyed primary care physicians in Missouri to determine the presence and extent of standards of care for 12 hypothetical cases.
  • (16) A hypothetical view of the relationship between these cell types is presented.
  • (17) In assessing the autoradiographs, two methods were compared, the circle analysis and the recently described hypothetical grain analysis.
  • (18) Hypothetically a blockade of the surface of T-lymphocytes by products of the immediate reaction, for example immune complexes, is suggested.
  • (19) The loss of threshold showed a large inter-individual variability, with a rapid increase above a hypothetic threshold dose.
  • (20) From the data obtained a hypothetical sequence of phosphorylation and 18O-exchange reactions in myofibril action has been suggested.