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counterfactual

adjective as in counter to facts

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Contemporary physics, she argues, does not take into account counterfactuals and this “is getting in the way of progress.”

The laws of physics, expressed as counterfactuals, offer a chance for improvement.

To further grasp the importance of counterfactual properties, and their difference from actual properties, imagine a computer programmed to produce on its display a string of zeroes.

A common thread across these examples is counterfactual information generation.

With counterfactual information, AIs would be able to imagine possible futures on their own.

Psychologists call this awareness of what might have been “counterfactual thinking.”

For anyone who ever thought it was glamorous to die young, Reed was the counterintuitive counterfactual.

His counterfactual musings don't provide any practicable, coherent or implementable alternatives.

But let's consider a counterfactual: Republicans double down.

It will depend upon the counterfactual—who is the other person.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to counterfactual, such as: false, incorrect, made-up, truthless, untrue, and untruthful.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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