Event whose occurrence is posited, but not proven, or that is known to be counter to actual events.
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Examples for "counterfactual "
Examples for "counterfactual "
1 Certainly an increased focus on stability and soundness beats the counterfactual alternative.
2 But the causality there is unclear and we don't have the counterfactual .
3 In any event, Stone and Kuznick's more intriguing task is to do counterfactual history.
4 Yet remarkably little is known about the psychological and neural foundations of counterfactual reasoning.
5 What concerns me about these is that they are blatantly misleading and sometimes counterfactual .
1 Roger said, Gwen, you can't focus on hypothetical events that could have or should have or might have happened.
1 More than 24,000 people on Facebook responded to the proposed event outside Cilla Carden's home, prompting a warning from WA Police.
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Translations for theoretical occurrence