pretheoretically
English
editEtymology
editFrom pretheoretical + -ly.
Adverb
editpretheoretically (not comparable)
- Before taking any theoretical considerations into account.
- 2007 December 29, Sanford Goldberg, “Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, :
- I don’t dispute that some cases of this sort—involving a subject who differentially doubts what, pretheoretically, we would take to be one and the same thought-content, entertained twice—might be best described by hypothesizing a difference in content.