counterfactually

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English

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Etymology

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From counterfactual +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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counterfactually (not comparable)

  1. In a counterfactual way.
    • 2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
      All they do is to emphasize the causal link between experience and the relevant belief by expressing it counterfactually: If S ’s experience had been different, S would have had a different belief (with a different content a la (P1)).

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