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as-if hypothesis

an unproven hypothesis that is treated “as if” it were correct, usually because of its value as an explanatory model or its utility as a basis for experiment and research. Many of the hypothetical entities postulated by psychology and psychoanalysis are of this nature.

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sarcoma

n. see cancer.