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Altered Pasts : Counterfactuals in History. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press. ISBN 978-1611685381. Ferguson, Niall (1997). Virtual History : Alternatives and Counterfactuals. London: Picador. ISBN 978-0-330-35132-4. Hawthorn, Geoffrey (1991). Plausible Worlds : Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences.
Counterfactual thinking is a concept in psychology that involves the human tendency to create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred; something that is contrary to what actually happened.
Counterfactuals are characterized grammatically by their use of fake tense morphology, which some languages use in combination with other kinds of morphology including aspect and mood. Counterfactuals are one of the most studied phenomena in philosophical logic, formal semantics, and philosophy of language.
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What If?, subtitled The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, also known as What If?The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, is an anthology of twenty essays and fourteen sidebars dealing with counterfactual history.
Molinism, named after 16th-century Spanish Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina, is the thesis that God has middle knowledge (or scientia media): the knowledge of counterfactuals, particularly counterfactuals regarding human action. [1]
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