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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).

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56Four factors that moderate the intensity of emotions

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53My Current Take on CounterfactualsΩ

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29Agency and the unreliable autonomous carΩ

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25The Many Faces of Infra-BeliefsΩ

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18Some thoughts on "The Nature of Counterfactuals"

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18Results: Circular Dependency of Counterfactuals Prize

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15The Nature of CounterfactualsΩ

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

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9Applying the Counterfactual Prisoner's Dilemma to Logical UncertaintyΩ

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5Counterfactual Contracts

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4Circular Counterfactuals "Only that which Happens is Possible"

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3Counterfactuals from ensembles of peers

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105The Curse Of The Counterfactual

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86I Was Not Almost Wrong But I Was Almost Right: Close-Call Counterfactuals and Bias

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86Counterfactual Mugging Poker GameΩ

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