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- adverb In a
counterfactual way.
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Examples
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As I say, it's a little pointless trying to imagine whether a counterfactually independent Wales would be in a better or worse state than as part of the UK.
The £6bn lie 2009
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The response to it, on the other hand, will be as big a crisis as we were told the first crisis, counterfactually, could have been.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Crisis, the Health Care Bill, and the Growth of Government 2010
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The stimulus kept a lot of jobs from being cut, but because this is only true counterfactually, Obama and the Democratic will get no credit for it for exactly the reasons MY outlines.
Matthew Yglesias » The Soon-to-Change Unemployment Narrative 2010
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If you find a socialist Democrat who is racist then he is labled as ‘Right Wing’ because the left has, counterfactually, labled all racism as “right wing.”
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If you find a socialist Democrat who is racist then he is labled as ‘Right Wing’ because the left has, counterfactually, labled all racism as “right wing.”
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The response to it, on the other hand, will be as big a crisis as we were told the first crisis, counterfactually, could have been.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Crisis, the Health Care Bill, and the Growth of Government 2010
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Let's hypothesize, counterfactually, that J. K. Rowling copied every single idea used in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010
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Assume, counterfactually, that Disney had failed to get copyright extended and that Steamboat Willie had passed into the public domain.
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I began this book counterfactually, with the “philosophical fantasy” of a situation in which Whitehead, rather than Heidegger, “had set the agenda for postmodern thought.”
Archive 2009-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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I began this book counterfactually, with the “philosophical fantasy” of a situation in which Whitehead, rather than Heidegger, “had set the agenda for postmodern thought.”
Epoche vs. aletheia Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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