Sentence examples for counterfactual question from inspiring English sources

This is the harder counterfactual question.

"It is a counterfactual question, so we shall never know," she said in an e-mail.

IT IS a great counterfactual question about the battle of Antietam, where more than 6,000 Americans died on September 17th 1862, the bloodiest single day in American history.

But he may have misplayed his hand in another way, too.Previously when asked, "Was it a mistake to go to war to Iraq?"—not a counterfactual question prefaced with "given what we know now"—Mr Rubio has said, "No, I don't believe it was.

This is a counterfactual question of the form discussed in subsection 5.2, and we refer the reader to the references given there.

Thus, the counterfactual question raised is, holding all else equal, would the rate of marijuana use continue to increase, or instead decrease, when alcohol becomes available.

One way of avoiding this is to pose counterfactual questions.

Inevitably, the reader of these observations will find himself posing counterfactual questions.

Since his aim is explanation and not simply narration, the text is dotted with pointed, occasionally counterfactual questions.

In the 52nd chapter of his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Edward Gibbon posed one of the great counterfactual questions of history.

Counterfactual questions such as "what would happen if you re-run the tape of life?" turn on the nature of the landscape of biological possibilities.