Sentence examples for In a counterfactual from inspiring English sources

Now, the fact that this conclusion is drawn in a counterfactual world doesn't make it any more tolerable.

The opening chapters bring to mind the internment camps and sinister bureaucracies of his first Booker winner, Life & Times of Michael K (1983), the story of a gardener in a counterfactual, civil war‑torn South Africa.

To evaluate the policy empirically, we estimate a counterfactual what would have happened in a counterfactual or "Synthetic" Seattle, made up of a weighted average of donor countries, that did not raise their minimum wage standards.

Indeed, the circumstances of this one, relatively small, battle were so unlikely that it makes one think of counterfactual history, but with this twist: that we are, ourselves, now living in a counterfactual timeline, one in which some bored historian had posed the question: what if Major Baring and his 400 men had held off Napoleon's thousands at the La Haye Sainte farmhouse?

Why should the nurse be concerned with what the doctor would command in a counterfactual situation?

One of the benefits of this model is that decomposition results can be interpreted in a counterfactual manner.

A number of epistemic preferences that underly the choice of alternative worlds in accommodating a counterfactual supposition are then examined ranging over types of knowledge, locality of action, and time.

In this, Lewis complicates the matter of the counterfactual condition by stating that in order for a counterfactual condition to be necessarily true, it must be true in all possible worlds.

This suggests that the age group difference in emotion ratings reported above is specific to reported emotions elicited in response to a counterfactual comparison between chosen and unchosen alternatives.

However, the same situation cannot be found in cases involving a counterfactual attitude verb.

Lange's (2000, 2009) treatment includes an account of what it is to be a law in terms of a counterfactual notion of stability.