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The notion of counterfactual can be best supported by examples, some examples are listed here:
The notion of counterfactual can be best supported by examples, some examples are listed here:


# Freeman Dyson's articulation<ref>{{:Video/Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society}}</ref> of heresy in scientific methods
# [[Freeman Dyson]]'s articulation<ref>{{:Video/Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society}}</ref> of heresy in scientific methods
# Charles Benette's revelation of quantum information theory.
# [[Charles Bennette]]'s revelation<ref>{{:Video/Information is Quantum - Charlie Bennett}}</ref> of quantum information theory.


=References=
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Latest revision as of 06:04, 22 December 2022

According to Wikipedia Counterfactual conditional(Q1783264) is a way to denote something could have been if some pre-conditions are assumed to be true. This idea was later developed extensively by Judea Pearl[1] and influenced his work in Bayesian Belief Network. This is also a way to utilize the property of symmetry-breaking in logic to perform logical inferences.

Relevant Arguments

The notion of counterfactual can be best supported by examples, some examples are listed here:

  1. Freeman Dyson's articulation[2] of heresy in scientific methods
  2. Charles Bennette's revelation[3] of quantum information theory.

References

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