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To: Lane3 who wrote (39489)	4/14/2004 8:26:47 PM
From: Ilaine	of 793936

The two contexts I've seen "counterfactual" used most meaningfully in are economic modelling, and war gaming. In both contexts, you can actually input a different set of facts into a model to see how they play out in something approximating reality. Not that the models are ever a substitute for reality.

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