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counter-factual

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  • One is associated with a technique called counter-factual reasoning, which is a “what if?” type of speculation that historians engage in when contemplating pivotal events in history.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • One is associated with a technique called counter-factual reasoning, which is a “what if?” type of speculation that historians engage in when contemplating pivotal events in history.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • One is associated with a technique called counter-factual reasoning, which is a “what if?” type of speculation that historians engage in when contemplating pivotal events in history.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • One is associated with a technique called counter-factual reasoning, which is a “what if?” type of speculation that historians engage in when contemplating pivotal events in history.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • Cult status may yet arrive for this strange, atmospheric movie, an eerie counter-factual fantasy with a hint of Cavalcanti's Went the Day Well?

    Resistance – review 2011

  • Instead of spending all your time concocting counter-factual fantasies, you would do better actually availing yourself of the facts.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » This Is What You Get For Cooperating with the Government 2009

  • In a campaign season that promises to be as ugly and counter-factual as any in recent memory, a little poetic license when it comes to agriculture is probably acceptable.

    Bill Chameides: On Being Amber Instead of Green Bill Chameides 2012

  • Something of a mosaic novel: scenes from an alternate history, describing a 20th century Britain that has languished under a repressive and anti-technological Catholic yoke ever since the counter-factual success of the Spanish Armada.

    Brian Ruckley · What I’ve Been Reading 2009

  • In a campaign season that promises to be as ugly and counter-factual as any in recent memory, a little poetic license when it comes to agriculture is probably acceptable.

    Bill Chameides: On Being Amber Instead of Green Bill Chameides 2012

  • You may be right that Mexico has not drastically changed its rules (I am no Mexico expert) but that does not prove the counter-factual, that Mexico would have reformed if NAFTA was not around.

    Protesting Globalization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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  • The best use I heard of this was "What I'm hearing here is actually counter-factual". Meaning,of course,"You're a liar".

    January 30, 2008