counterfactuals

常见例句

Counterfactuals can be used to reimagine history or to posit different futures.
反现实可以用来反想像历史或假定不一样的未来。
For real counterfactuals, look to the poverty of autarkic Burma, or the miseries of North Korea and Cuba.
要找真正的反面事实，不妨看看封闭的缅甸之贫穷，或者朝鲜和古巴的苦难。
There is an empiricist tradition which denies truth values to counterfactuals and says that they express policies or attitudes.
有一种经验主义的传统，它怀疑反事实的真值，并且说他们表明了一种方针或者态度。