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Counterfactual
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Meaning
Adj
●
Contrary to known or
agreed
facts
; untrue.
●
Of or
in comparison
to a
hypothetical
state of the world.
Noun
●
A
claim
,
hypothesis
, or other
belief
that is
contrary to
the facts.
●
A
hypothetical
state
of the world
, used to
assess
the impact of an action.
●
In Linguistics, Philosophy & Alternate history:
A
conditional
statement
in which the
conditional
clause
is false.
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Origin
counterfactual
English
counter-
English
factual
English
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Etym
Related
Hypothetical
Unprovable
Fallacious
Unfalsifiable
Hypothesis
Tautology
Counterargument
Truism
Presupposition
Proposition
Tautological
Probabilistic
Empirical
Plausible
Falsifiable
Causality
Supposition
Causal
Predicate
Reductionist
Baseline
Ahistorical
Normative
Conclusion
Antecedent
Unverifiable
Fallacy
Unsupportable
Spurious
Unevidenced
Conditional
Explanation
Specious
Syllogism
Inference
Subjective
Null Hypothesis
Non Sequitur
False Dichotomy
Circular Argument
Thought Experiment
Ex Post
Post Hoc
False Dilemma
Brute Fact
Ex Ante
Fallacy Of Composition
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