counterfactual loss
counterfactual loss is classified here as construct. This public reference has been located and classified, but its substantive orientation, bibliography, comparisons, criticisms, and corpus-specific assessment remain assigned research.
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Claim philosophical lineage
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Language as revisable making
Counterfactual loss as a literary structure of unrealized possibility, not automatic evidence of bereavement, trauma, or a discarded identity
Through-line philosophical lineage 2
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The same intellectual material redeployed across registers·Iteration as ground state — revising rather than finishing
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