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Counterfactuals

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Counterfactual reasoning is about looking at choices you could have made, but didn't.

Counterfactuals are similar to hypotheticals (but tend to focus on choices you could have made, rather than situations you could have been in).

Posts tagged Counterfactuals

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57Four factors that moderate the intensity of emotions

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53My Current Take on Counterfactuals

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30The Many Faces of Infra-Beliefs

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29Agency and the unreliable autonomous car

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22QACI: question-answer counterfactual intervals

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20Some thoughts on "The Nature of Counterfactuals"

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19Results: Circular Dependency of Counterfactuals Prize

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17Counterfactuals are Confusing because of an Ontological Shift

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15The Nature of Counterfactuals

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12Causality and determinism in social science - An investigation using Pearl's causal ladder

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10Counterfactual Contracts

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9Applying the Counterfactual Prisoner's Dilemma to Logical Uncertainty

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8Decisions: Ontologically Shifting to Determinism

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7Getting Unstuck on Counterfactuals

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4Circular Counterfactuals "Only that which Happens is Possible"

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