"... which of these two hypotheses is more _nearly_ correct ..."

[Wilson Gray]

That's the format that had to be used in order to pass tests, in my
grade-school and high-school years, given that _correct_ is an
absolute: X is correct; otherwise, X is necessarily incorrect.
Logically, nothing can be _more_ correct than _correct_.

However, IME, examples of the prescribed syntagm in the wild have
always been hard to find.

Of course, the use of _more_ and not _most_ in this environment is
also prescribed.

This find is museum-worthy!;-)

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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