Counterfactual Thinking: David Lewis’s Possible Worlds, the Simulation Heuristic, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Must Audit the Paths Not Taken

Navy and cream editorial cover: a solid path and a dashed counterfactual branch diverge from a gold decision node, the gap between endpoints labelled as what drives judgment.

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