counterfactual
Example Sentences
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He repeatedly invokes counterfactual arguments to insist that without guns there would have been no Industrial Revolution.
It’s a choice that holds up well against a counterfactual life given over to hobbies and travel.
That effacement tries to create a counterfactual absurdity.
From Salon
We can't be certain because the results depend heavily on the method chosen by researchers for measuring the "counterfactual", i.e what would have happened to UK exports had the country stayed in the EU.
From BBC
These so-called counterfactual scenarios are alternative possibilities for past events, i.e. scenarios that did not occur but could have happened.
From Science Daily
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