Counterfactual conditionals (also subjunctive or X-marked) are conditional sentences which discuss what would have been true under different circumstances...

among conditionals is that between indicative and counterfactual conditionals, exemplified by the following English examples: Indicative conditional: If...

an imperative. Special tense morphology can be used to form a counterfactual conditional. Some linguists have argued that other superficially distinct...

Look up counterfactual in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Counterfactual is counterfactual conditional, a conditional containing an if-clause which is...

the English would have written. The conditional perfect is used to refer to a hypothetical, usually counterfactual, event or circumstance placed in the...

consequences Indicative conditional, a conditional sentence expressing "if A then B" in a natural language Counterfactual conditional, a conditional sentence indicating...

underlie rational thought, including reasoning from counterfactual conditionals. More recently, counterfactual thinking has gained interest from a psychological...

be true. Indicatives are typically defined in opposition to counterfactual conditionals, which have extra grammatical marking which allows them to discuss...

Corresponding conditional Counterfactual conditional Dynamic semantics Import-Export Indicative conditional Logical consequence Material conditional Graham Priest...

sufficient operator Corresponding conditional Counterfactual conditional Indicative conditional Strict conditional Note that the horseshoe symbol Ɔ has...

regularities (constant conjunctions of events), changes in conditional probabilities, counterfactual conditions, mechanisms underlying causal relations, and...

including: Indicative conditional Counterfactual conditional Biscuit conditional Conditional (computer programming), a conditional statement in a computer programming...

dependent on some condition, possibly counterfactual. It may refer to a distinct verb form that expresses the conditional set of circumstances proper in the...

(1959), A New Latin Syntax. Ancient Greek conditional clauses Conditional sentence Counterfactual conditional Kennedy (1962), p. 189; Gildersleeve & Lodge...

contrasted with counterfactuality: what might have occurred, but did not. A counterfactual conditional or subjunctive conditional is a conditional (or "if–then")...

Worlds (1986) and Counterfactuals (1973) are considered classics. His works on the logic and semantics of counterfactual conditionals are broadly used...

Aphrodite had not quickly observed him" Latin conditional clauses Conditional sentence Counterfactual conditional Smyth. A Greek grammar for colleges. § 2698...

of Counterfactual Conditionals", The Journal of Philosophy, Vol.44, No.5, (27 February 1947), pp. 113–128; Brown, R, & Watling, J., "Counterfactual Conditionals"...

antecedent of the conditional, then the presupposition is blocked. Otherwise, it is allowed to project up to the entire conditional. Here is an example:...

term "subjunctive conditional" is sometimes used instead of "counterfactual conditional". But the paradigmatic cases of counterfactual thinking involve...

In quantum mechanics, counterfactual definiteness (CFD) is the ability to speak "meaningfully" of the definiteness of the results of measurements that...

should not be confused with Robert K. Shope's 1978 "conditional fallacy", which deals with counterfactual examples that beg the question. In general, it cannot...

the counterfactual conditional 'if the agent had wanted to do otherwise, then he would have done otherwise' is true. Importantly, this counterfactual conditional...

existence. These permanent possibilities could be analysed into counterfactual conditionals, such as "if I were to have y-type sensations, then I would also...

(then-clause) of counterfactual conditional sentences. The modal would (or should as a first-person alternative) is used to produce the conditional construction...

preserves as much information as possible. The evaluation of a counterfactual conditional a > b {\displaystyle a>b} can be done, according to the Ramsey...

individual can be harmed by treatment. The modern approach, based on counterfactual conditionals, relaxes this assumption and yields bounds on NNT. A type of...

avoid vacuous truths by using alternative conditionals (such as the case of the counterfactual conditional). Many programming environments have a mechanism...

(2006). "Counterfactuals in science". Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition. Macmillan. Craig, Edward (1996). "Counterfactual conditionals". Routledge...

the main verb. It generally refers to a conditional ongoing situation in hypothetical (usually counterfactual) past time: I would have been sitting on...