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Of the third species of analysis, which proceeds from the hypothetical to that which is unhypothetical, Plato has given a most beautiful specimen in the first hypothesis of his Parmenides.

From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Taylor, Thomas

For one is an ascent from sensibles to the first intelligibles; a second is an ascent through things demonstrated and subdemonstrated, to undemonstrated and immediate propositions; and a third proceeds from hypothesis to unhypothetical principles.

From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Taylor, Thomas

The Dialectic faculty proceeds from hypothesis to an unhypothetical principle....

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

And thus, beginning from the hypothetical, he ends in that which is unhypothetical, and truly ineffable.

From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Taylor, Thomas