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counterfactually

adv

Etymology

From counterfactual + -ly.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-✻
  2. derived from factum
  3. derived from fact
  4. suffixed as factual — “fact + ual”
  5. prefixed as counterfactual — “counter- + factual”
  6. suffixed as counterfactually — “counterfactual + ly”

Definitions

  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)).

The neighborhood

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