Counterfactual and Fake

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Counterfactual adjective - Going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis).

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Fake and counterfactual are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fake" instead an adjective "Counterfactual".

Fake adjective - Being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials.

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Counterfactual and fake are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Counterfactual" instead an adjective "Fake".

Nearby Words: faked, faking, faker

Conviction by Counterfactual Clue: used in-story when Quentyn's "proof" that the human coins were fake turned out to be a research failure on his part, but it fooled the bad guy (who didn't know any better) anyway.

Source: Webcomic / Tales of the Questor

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