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counterfactually

counterfactually adverb: in a counterfactual way.

Adverb

counterfactually (not comparable)

  1. In a counterfactual way.
    • 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)).2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI

Origin of counterfactually

From counterfactual + -ly.

Questions about counterfactually

What does counterfactually mean?
Counterfactually means in a counterfactual way.
What part of speech is counterfactually?
Counterfactually is an adverb.

Words near counterfactually in the dictionary

  1. counterfactualizations
  2. counterfactualize
  3. counterfactualized
  4. counterfactualizes
  5. counterfactualizing
  6. counterfactually
  7. counterfactualness
  8. counterfactuals
  9. counterfaisance
  10. counterfallacies
  11. counterfallacy

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