counterfactual in English
adjective
1
relating to or expressing what has not happened or is not the case.
But to generate knowledge independently of experience, a priori warrants must produce warranted true belief in counterfactual situations where experiences are different.
noun
1
a counterfactual conditional statement (e.g., If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over ).
Such a semantics states truth conditions for counterfactuals in terms of relations among possible worlds.
adjective
contrary to fact
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1. The majority of diarrhoeal Aetiologies were attributed with a counterfactual approach called a population attributable fraction (PAF)
2. "The Holocaust Averted shows how stimulating a counterfactual drawn from social history can be … Gurock's book takes a seemingly felicitous event as a divergence point, and draws dark conclusions." ―