1. counterfactual - Noun
2. counterfactual - Adjective
3. counterfactual - Adjective Satellite
going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)
Source: WordNetDue to this focus, higher education is risking a "dystopian counterfactual" valuation of degrees as hollow representations of bureaucratic endurance rather than employability. Source: Internet
Assuming counterfactual definiteness, reality has been enlarged, and there is a non-locality problem. Source: Internet
By rejecting the photons that Bob receives and only accepting the ones he doesn't receive, Bob & Alice can set up a secure channel, i.e. Eve's attempts to read the counterfactual photons would still be detected. Source: Internet
Causality construed from counterfactual states seeAlso Intuitively, causation seems to require not just a correlation, but a counterfactual dependence. Source: Internet
If one chooses to reject counterfactual definiteness, reality has been made smaller, and there is no non-locality problem. Source: Internet
In 1748, when defining causation, David Hume referred to a counterfactual case: "…we may define a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all objects, similar to the first, are followed by objects similar to the second. Source: Internet