hypothetical imperative

1. 1.

   a principle stating the action required to attain a desired goal

   Broaderprinciple

Questions about hypothetical imperative

What does hypothetical imperative mean?

hypothetical imperative means "a principle stating the action required to attain a desired goal".

Is hypothetical imperative a common word?

hypothetical imperative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.