counterfactual

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1. counterfactual - Noun

2. counterfactual - Adjective

3. counterfactual - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)

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Due 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

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