Should such hypothetical entities be considered a priori incapable of experiencing pain just because they did not possess the same neurochemistry as humans?

If the theories are successful, someone will find a more direct way of showing that the hypothetical entities are actually there.

It was the hypothetical entity supposed to watch over the affairs of everyday life--every individual, every animal!

In Miller v. California, the court defers definition to two hypothetical entities, "contemporary community standards" and "hypothetical reasonable persons".

These hypothetical entities, he contended, should not be considered incapable of experiencing pain just because they lack the same neurochemistry as humans.

Dismissing Mrs. Potts from my mind, which, to tell the truth, seemed to have no room for her shadowy and hypothetical entity, I fell to examining the chest.

A superintelligence, hyperintelligence or superhuman intelligence is a hypothetical entity which possesses intelligence surpassing that of any existing human being.

A posthuman God is a hypothetical future entity descended from or created by humans, but possessing capabilities so radically exceeding those of present humans as to appear godlike.

The contact with hypothetical entities of the third realm by way of an unspecified technique of grasping seems to exclude this possibility for Fodor.

A quark is a hypothetical entity representing a basic constituent of matter.