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Going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)
counterfactual
conditional
Synonyms
Examples for "
counterfactual
"
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.