Counterfactual conditional

Known as: Counter facts, Counterfactual (disambiguation), Counter-factual 
A counterfactual conditional (abbreviated CF), is a conditional containing an if-clause which is contrary to fact. The term counterfactual was coined… (More)
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2018
Highly Cited
2018
Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients
Many real-world problems, such as network packet routing and the coordination of autonomous vehicles, are naturally modelled as… (More)
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2016
Highly Cited
2016
Learning Representations for Counterfactual Inference
Observational studies are rising in importance due to the widespread accumulation of data in fields such as healthcare, education… (More)
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2014
2014
Branching Space-Time , Modal Logic and the Counterfactual Conditional
The paper gives a physicist’s view on the framework of branching space-time (Belnap, Synthese 92 (1992), 385–434). Branching… (More)
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Inference on Counterfactual Distributions
We develop inference procedures for counterfactual analysis based on regression methods. We analyze the effect of either changing… (More)
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2008
2008
Dispositional Properties and Counterfactual Conditionals
For the last several decades, dispositional properties have been one of the main topics in metaphysics. Still, however, there is… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Counterfactual Dependence and Time ' s Arrow
Today I am typing words on a page. Suppose today were different. Suppose I were typing different words. Then plainly tomorrow… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
COUNTERFACTUAL DECOMPOSITION OF CHANGES IN WAGE DISTRIBUTIONS USING QUANTILE REGRESSION
We propose a method to decompose the changes in the wage distribution over a period of time in several factors contributing to… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
The Grammatical Ingredients of Counterfactuality
Counterfactual constructions convey the meaning that the speaker believes a certain proposition not to hold. This article… (More)
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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Counterfactual Probabilities: Computational Methods, Bounds and Applications
Evaluation of counterfactual queries (e.g., "If A were true, would C have been true?") is important to fault diagnosis, planning… (More)
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Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Counterfactuals and comparative possibility
In the last dozen years or so, our understanding of modality has been much improved by means of possible-world semantics: the… (More)
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