But both positions are contrafactual, hence un-provable.
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His ideas on contrafactual history are well known and have been highly influential.
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For some people they are both contrafactual nonsense; for some'magic'is real but natural, so not'supernatural'; for some they are more or less synonymous; for some they are both real, but different; and so on .-- ColinFine 18 : 40, 1 January 2007 ( UTC)
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It shows a use of the subjunctive considerably more exotic and obsolete . " I had as lief " means " I would have as lief, " i . e . " I would just as soon it be the case that . . . " This is the same conditional subjunctive you see in " But that were madness, sir ! " meaning " But that " would be " madness . " ( I realize now that I'm assuming the original asker had a past contrafactual wish like " I wish I had not eaten the whole thing, " whereas s / he could have meant " I wish I had a million dollars, " which is present contrafactual, but my point holds, since you ought still to use the subjunctive in the protasis, but to find it in the apodosis, as in Shakespeare, is obsolete . ) Wareh 03 : 57, 11 December 2006 ( UTC)
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It shows a use of the subjunctive considerably more exotic and obsolete . " I had as lief " means " I would have as lief, " i . e . " I would just as soon it be the case that . . . " This is the same conditional subjunctive you see in " But that were madness, sir ! " meaning " But that " would be " madness . " ( I realize now that I'm assuming the original asker had a past contrafactual wish like " I wish I had not eaten the whole thing, " whereas s / he could have meant " I wish I had a million dollars, " which is present contrafactual, but my point holds, since you ought still to use the subjunctive in the protasis, but to find it in the apodosis, as in Shakespeare, is obsolete . ) Wareh 03 : 57, 11 December 2006 ( UTC)
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