Sentence examples for counterfactual evolution from inspiring English sources

Counterfactual evolution of housing prices.

Our method consists in comparing the actual evolution of the (gender and age specific) employment rate from the second quarter of 2007 to mid-2008 to a counterfactual evolution.

To that purpose, we compare the actual evolution of the employment rate after the implementation of the policies to its predicted (counterfactual) evolution based on the estimation of a macro-econometric model in a period prior to the ISP.

Our evaluation method consists in comparing the actual quarterly evolution of the age and gender-specific employment rates over the period 2007 to mid-2008 to a counterfactual evolution.

What guides our counterfactual development?

Supporters of evolution dismiss such criticisms as counterfactual, and some argue that the opposite seems to be the case.

If counterfactual dependences centred on the default course of evolution are taken to indicate causal relations, these counterfactual dependences more accurately reflect our intuitive causal judgements.

Now if we evaluate counterfactual dependences with counterfactuals centred on the default course of evolution rather than the actual course of evolution, we can see that the bodyguard's action counterfactually depends on the assassin's action and the king's survival depends on the bodyguard's action, but the king's survival doesn't depend on the assassin's action.

Even a realist, then, will grant a significant degree of cross-species moral relativism (or counterfactual moral relativism for deeply different courses of human evolution).

The algorithmization of counterfactuals now brings us a giant step closer to understanding why evolution has endowed humans with the illusion of free will, and how it manages to keep that illusion so vivid in our brain.

This paper will discuss the philosophical background to evolutionary theory and present multiple counterfactuals to each of the following seven empirically unsustainable but nonetheless widespread assumptions about genomic (DNA-based) evolution:.