Going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)
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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 This means the right to form false judgments, to draw conclusions contrary to fact .
2 Honaton & Benson certainly don't want to get out a report contrary to fact .
3 Your representations are exaggerated; your melancholy views mostly fictitious; your inferences contrary to fact and experience.
4 It is not contrary to fact .
5 But this is contrary to fact .
6 This legend is contrary to fact .
7 Is this not contrary to fact ?
8 You should have said, 'If I were president'... which is correct because it is a condition contrary to fact .
9 It is, therefore, contrary to fact to represent the Whites exclusively as ruling, and the Blacks indiscriminately as subject.
10 If it means what it says, it is a truism; if it means anything more, it is contrary to fact .
11 Nothing is so contrary to fact as the common opinion that the agricultural labourer and his family are stupid and unintelligent.
12 The three uses of the subjunctive now most frequent are, to express a wish, a concession, and condition contrary to fact .
13 Yet I have not introduced the words just quoted into our text, because they are, as we shall see presently, notoriously contrary to fact .
14 The letter (not unkind to me) was as contrary to facts and reason as possible.
15 "Do you wish to challenge any of these charges as contrary to fact ? "
16 "I think no man has a right to an opinion which is contrary to fact , " Percy replied.
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