roland comments on Can Counterfactuals Be True? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: roland 10 November 2012 03:49:08PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer you never defined what a counterfactual actually is, so I got the following from the internet:

A counterfactual is a conditional statement:

(Philosophy / Logic) a conditional statement in which the first clause is a past tense subjunctive statement expressing something contrary to fact, as in if she had hurried she would have caught the bus.