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Counterfactual conditionals (also contrafactual,
subjunctive or X-marked) are
conditional sentences which discuss what
would have been true
under different...
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Counterfactual thinking is a
concept in
psychology that
involves the
human tendency to
create possible alternatives to life
events that have
already occurred;...
- Look up
counterfactual in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Counterfactual is
counterfactual conditional, a
conditional containing an if-clause
which is...
- In
quantum mechanics,
counterfactual definiteness (CFD) is the
ability to
speak "meaningfully" of the
definiteness of the
results of
measurements that...
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Counterfactual history (also
virtual history) is a form of
historiography that
attempts to
answer the What if?
questions that
arise from counterfactual...
- and
Counterfactuals",
Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol.14, No.1, (February 1991), pp. 1–38; Barker, S., "
Counterfactuals,
Probabilistic Counterfactuals and...
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between the
regularity view of
causality and the
counterfactual notion.
According to the
counterfactual view, X
causes Y if and only if,
without X, Y would...
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Counterfactual quantum com****tion is a
method of
inferring the
result of a com****tion
without actually running a
quantum computer otherwise capable of...
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philosophers of
language sometimes avoid the term
counterfactuals because not all
examples express counterfactual meanings. For instance, the "Anderson Case"...
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Plurality of
Worlds (1986) and
Counterfactuals (1973) are
considered classics. His
works on the
logic and
semantics of
counterfactual conditionals are broadly...
