Adverb
By way of provision for the time being; temporarily.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWith its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit. Robert Musil
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. Ernst Mach
Can you prove that leprechauns don't live in my garden? Well, not absolutely, but if you never see one, and they have no effects, than you can provisionally conclude that they don't exist. And so it is with all the fanciful features and creatures we firmly believe don't exist. Jerry Coyne
When two hypotheses are possible, we provisionally choose that which our minds adjudge to be simpler, on the supposition that this is the more likely to lead in the direction of truth. It includes as a special case the principle of Occam's razor-entia non multiplicana praeter necessitatem. James Jeans
Nothing is static, nothing is final, everything is held provisionally. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
No collection of facts is ever complete, because the universe is without bounds. And no synthesis or interpretation is ever final, because there are always fresh facts to be found after the first collection has been provisionally arranged. Arnold J. Toynbee