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counterfactually en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English counterfactual Middle English -ly English -ly English counterfactually From counterfactual + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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: