Meaning of counterfactuality | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being counterfactual.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfactuality, the historian's term for speculation about how the past might have unfolded if a particular event had happened otherwise.”

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