Usually means: Imagining alternatives to actual events.
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  1. counterfactual: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. counterfactual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counterfactual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counterfactual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counterfactual: Vocabulary.com
  6. Counterfactual, counterfactual: Wordnik
  7. counterfactual: Wiktionary
  8. counterfactual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. counterfactual: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. counterfactual: Dictionary.com
  11. Counterfactual (disambiguation), Counterfactual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. counterfactual: Rhymezone
  13. counterfactual: Free Dictionary
  14. counterfactual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. counterfactual: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. counterfactual: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

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  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (counterfactual)

adjective:  Contrary to known or agreed facts; untrue.
adjective:  Of or in comparison to a hypothetical state of the world.
noun:  A claim, hypothesis, or other belief that is contrary to the facts.
noun:  A hypothetical state of the world, used to assess the impact of an action.
noun:  (linguistics, philosophy) A conditional statement in which the conditional clause is false.

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