Counterfactual vs Falsification - 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:
the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not
knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation
showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong
As nouns the difference between counterfactual and falsification
is that counterfactual is a claim, hypothesis, or other belief that is contrary to the facts while falsification is the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.As an adjective counterfactual
is contrary to the facts; untrue.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?"