Counterfactual history (also virtual history) is a form of historiography that attempts to answer the What if? questions that arise from counterfactual...
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Counterfactual thinking is a concept in psychology that involves the human tendency to create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred;...
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history Demographic history Ethnic history Gender history History of childhood History of education History of the family Labor history LGBT history Rural...
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Counterfactual conditionals (also contrafactual, subjunctive or X-marked) are conditional sentences which discuss what would have been true under different...
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in philosophy, science, etc. Counterfactual history, in historiography Alternate history, a literary genre Counterfactual subjunctive, grammatical forms...
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earlier possibility is Herodotus's Histories, which contains speculative material. Another example of counterfactual history was posited by cardinal and Doctor...
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studies, and counterfactual history. He is an editor of The Journal of Holocaust Research and edits the blog, The Counterfactual History Review, which...
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Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II (category World War II alternate histories)
topic in speculative literature. Works of alternative history (fiction) and of counterfactual history (non-fiction) include stories, novels, performances...
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Thought experiment (category History of science)
Foray, R., "Evolutionary Economics and the Counterfactual Threat: On the Nature and Role of Counterfactual History as an Empirical Tool in Economics", Journal...
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of the Marvel Comics universe What If? (essays), an anthology of counterfactual history essays What If? (magazine), a Canadian arts and literature youth...
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Niall Ferguson (category Harvard University Department of History faculty)
champions counterfactual history, also known as "speculative" or "hypothetical" history, and edited a collection of essays, titled Virtual History: Alternatives...
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In quantum mechanics, counterfactual definiteness (CFD) is the ability to speak "meaningfully" of the definiteness of the results of measurements that...
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However, Hinsley and others have emphasized the difficulties of counterfactual history in attempting such conclusions, and some historians, such as Keegan...
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If It Had Happened Otherwise (category Alternate history anthologies)
Each essay in the collection could be considered alternate history or counterfactual history, a few written by leading historians of the period and one...
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Alternate history, a form of historical fiction that speculates what would have happened had history gone differently Counterfactual history, this speculation...
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Journal of Military History; Cowley has also written extensively and edited three collections of essays in counterfactual history known as What If? As...
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Fact (section Factual–counterfactual distinction)
occurred—can also be contrasted with counterfactuality: what might have occurred, but did not. A counterfactual conditional or subjunctive conditional...
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What If? 2 (essays) (category Alternate history anthologies)
Might Have Been, is an anthology of twenty-five essays dealing with counterfactual history. It was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 2001, ISBN 0-399-14795-0...
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Science fiction (section History)
April 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2019. Bunzl, Martin (June 2004). "Counterfactual History: A User's Guide". American Historical Review. 109 (3): 845–858....
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the world that we know by perception. counterfactual history A form of historiography that seeks to explore history by extrapolating a timeline in which...
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this one." Similarly, The Guardian's Lucy Mangan criticized its "counterfactual history", giving the series a two out of five-star review, writing: "This...
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American History, subtitled Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, is a collection of seventeen essays dealing with counterfactual history regarding...
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What If? (essays) (category Alternate history anthologies)
an anthology of twenty essays and fourteen sidebars dealing with counterfactual history. It was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1999, ISBN 0-399-14576-1...
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are not meant to preserve a bygone state or falsify history. Instead, they use counterfactual history to cope with the unsettling experience of dramatic...
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generating anachronisms. Early cliometrics was a type of counterfactual history. However, counterfactualism was not its distinctive feature; it combined neoclassical...
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List of historical classifications (category History)
historiography Feminist history (also called herstory). A form of historical speculation known commonly as counterfactual history has also been adopted...
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Jonbar hinge (category Alternate history)
Alien space bats Butterfly effect Counterfactual history For Want of a Nail Point of divergence in alternate history Langford, David (August 21, 2012)...
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Revolutions and Civil Wars? Or, the Constraints and Conceits of Counterfactual History." Revolutionary Russia (2020): 1–32. doi:10.1080/09546545.2019.1675961...
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Alan Turing (category History of computing in the United Kingdom)
it's the only way I can get some release. Due to the problems of counterfactual history, it is hard to estimate the precise effect Ultra intelligence had...
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Counterfactual quantum computation is a method of inferring the result of a computation without actually running a quantum computer otherwise capable of...
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