counterfactual

How To Use counterfactual In A Sentence

• Desdemona's remarkable, if temporary, recovery from asphyxiation is the most counterfactual thing in the play. Winters Tale follow-up
• Some have even maintained that causal statements can be analysed in terms of counterfactual conditionals.
• For instance, depressed individuals tend to use more counterfactuals, and in particular, more counterfactuals for "controllable" events1. If We Had a Cognitive Account of Counterfactuals, This Would Be It
• But then Brooks’s counterfactual is pointless, because you can’t choose to marry someone you can be happy with. Matthew Yglesias » Eternal Recurrence
• Research suggests that counterfactual comparisons help people draw preparative lessons for improved future performance.
• The story is an exercise in counterfactual genre criticism in which a professor tells his class about the fictitious history and non-existent antecedent of Poe's famous story "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842). REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow
• Based on the discussion above, we can hypothesize a link between a type of counterfactual thinking and learning.
• All the quirks of strange fiction, to put it in a pertinent perspective, all the counterfactual errata, the hypothetical novae, the metaphysical chimerae — Nazi presidents and robot stormtroopers and butterfly-winged faeries — these are not pure invention. Creative Control - Part 4
• This is to provide a sort of counterfactual analysis of the continued existence of unperceived objects.
• Counterfactual history - the history of might-have-beens - then becomes much more than an exercise in subjective speculation.