Sentence examples for most counterfactual from inspiring English sources

While counterfactual analyses have been given of type-causal concepts, most counterfactual analyses have focused on singular causal or token-causal claims of the form "event c caused event e".

Like most contemporary counterfactual theories, Lewis's theory employs a possible world semantics for counterfactuals.

11.59am: The most interesting counterfactual theory swirling around this morning is what would have happened if Bournville was in France?

His most famous counterfactual may be the suggestion that if Germany had won the first world war, a version of the European Union might have been created then.

The most recent counterfactual history is Steve Tally's "Almost America: From the Colonists to Clinton" (HarperCollins/Quill), a trade paperback that went on sale several weeks ago.

The context includes baseline status of conservation targets, and most likely counterfactual given recent trends in those targets i.e. what would have occurred in the absence of intervention.

"It's all about having the most robust counterfactual you can have," says Padian, who was a lead scientific adviser for PEPFAR.

And yet the most extreme and counterfactual subgroup among them — supply-siders — remain firmly in control of the party.

Most of these counterfactual studies use a model prediction (60%) and/or extrapolate from previous studies (34%); far fewer rely on empirical evidence (24%).

Research by Baron (2000) shows that entrepreneurs are less prone than most people to counterfactual thinking (thinking about what might have happened that did not, as in A above), and less inclined to experience regret over past failures (C).

Going much further than, say, Edward Zwick's "Defiance," which derived its tale of tough Jews fighting back against the Nazis from the historical record, "Basterds" presented one of the most audacious examples of counterfactual history ever committed to film.