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A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, concepts, effects
Edited by Lieven D’hulst and Yves Gambier
[Benjamins Translation Library 142] 2018
► pp. 277–281

Chapter 4.8
Counterfactual history

Keywords: Aristotle, causality, generic identity, historiography, integrational linguistics, universalism
Article outline
  • 1.Definition and context
  • 2.Examples
  • 3.Pitfalls
  • References
  • Further reading
Published online: 28 June 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.142.37dhu
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Further reading

Deluermoz, Quentin, and Pierre Singaravélou
2016 Pour une histoire des possibles. Analyses contrefactuelles et futurs non advenus. Paris: Seuil.Google Scholar
Evans, Richard
2014 Altered Pasts, Counterfactuals in History. Little Brown: Brandeis.Google Scholar
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