counterfactual
Example Sentences
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Another counterfactual: Absent regime change in 2003, Iraqis wouldn’t have voted in last week’s parliamentary elections.
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.
I think an oligarch class is going to deliver us a combination of both, where the AI will not only create reliance on it but give us bad, counterfactual information about important issues.
From Los Angeles Times
That effacement tries to create a counterfactual absurdity.
From Salon
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