Counterfactual vs Counterfactually - What's the difference?
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Contrary to the facts; untrue.
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A claim, hypothesis, or other belief that is contrary to the facts.
(philosophy) A conditional statement in which the conditional clause is false, as "If I had arrived on time . . ."."
* 1952', B. J. Diggs, "VI.—'''Counterfactual Conditionals," ''Mind , vol. 61, no. 244, page 513:
In a counterfactual way.
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, passage=All they do is to emphasize the causal link between experience and the relevant belief by expressing it counterfactually : If S ’s experience had been different, S would have had a different belief (with a different content a la (P1)).}}
As an adjective counterfactual
is contrary to the facts; untrue.As a noun counterfactual
is a claim, hypothesis, or other belief that is contrary to the facts.As an adverb counterfactually is
in a counterfactual way.counterfactual
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(en noun)counterfactual" in A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names'' (Garth Kemerling, 1997-2002)''Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
- In recent years there has been increasing discussion of the "problem of counterfactuals ". One way of formulating this problem is as follows: "What is meant when one asserts a conditional statement, the antecedent of which is contrary to fact?"