Going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)
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Examples for "counterfactual"
Examples for "counterfactual"
1Certainly an increased focus on stability and soundness beats the counterfactual alternative.
2But the causality there is unclear and we don't have the counterfactual.
3In any event, Stone and Kuznick's more intriguing task is to do counterfactual history.
4Yet remarkably little is known about the psychological and neural foundations of counterfactual reasoning.
5What concerns me about these is that they are blatantly misleading and sometimes counterfactual.
1This means the right to form false judgments, to draw conclusions contrary to fact.
2Honaton & Benson certainly don't want to get out a report contrary to fact.
3Your representations are exaggerated; your melancholy views mostly fictitious; your inferences contrary to fact and experience.
4It is not contrary to fact.
5But this is contrary to fact.
6This legend is contrary to fact.
7Is this not contrary to fact?
8You should have said, 'If I were president'... which is correct because it is a condition contrary to fact.
9It is, therefore, contrary to fact to represent the Whites exclusively as ruling, and the Blacks indiscriminately as subject.
10If it means what it says, it is a truism; if it means anything more, it is contrary to fact.
11Nothing is so contrary to fact as the common opinion that the agricultural labourer and his family are stupid and unintelligent.
12The three uses of the subjunctive now most frequent are, to express a wish, a concession, and condition contrary to fact.
13Yet I have not introduced the words just quoted into our text, because they are, as we shall see presently, notoriously contrary to fact.
14The 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.