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Originally posted by jimbotosome@Sep 28 2005, 12:40 AM
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its okay to think that, but i'll stand back and hold the jackets!X :PX :P
| A counterfactual is another name for a "What if". A type of hypothesis where the facts are known but an alternative is conjectured. It is not a derisive term and does not mean to lie. Is that what you thought?
| What i mean, is that they tend to end up just being slanging matches as the participants try and force their ideas onto each other.
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| Too true...remember that conjecture is just that...there are so many different ways history could have turned out. Some of it borders on satire. Robert Cowley's crwe at Military History Quarterly did two good books: "What If" and "What If 2," about such departures from military history...the Spanish conquer England in 1588, the Confederates win the American Civil War, the Moslems conquer Europe, the Americans drop the bomb on Cuba in 1962, and so on. Interesting stuff. Also very scary.
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