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   > school of psychology that makes a difference in therapy, but only the   
   > person.   
      
   I had never heard of it and I can't look up anything right now, but it   
   makes perfect sense to me.  The inner is the outer.  What a person lives   
   in the outside is a reflection of you'd find on the inside.  A   
   therapist, like any intelligent person, can be of help, but you can't   
   put your life in order if you are not able to find order where you   
   should be looking.   
      
   >>>> A beg your pardon?  I'm not sure what you mean, but I think I agree.  A   
   >>>> counterfactual is something that goes against the facts.  Surely.  I   
   >>>> could never deny that 1 + 1 = 2, say.  I can't even ignore evidence.  I   
   >>>> don't mind leaving questions open at all.  Every now and then it's a   
   >>>> good idea to hang a question mark on all those things we've long taken   
   >>>> for granted.  (Is that Bertrand Russell again?)   
   >>>   
   >>> Not quite. Counterfactuals are questions such as... "imagine you ate   
   >>> an apple this morning, would that mean that later in the day you   
   >>> would have a stomach ache". So when those types of thought   
   >>> experiments are not made with the intention of high lighting   
   >>> something tangible or empirically provable, I find them to be   
   >>> useless idle speculation. That's what I was trying to get at.   
   >>   
   >> Oh, I see.  We're in total agreement.  I think counterfactual   
   >> propositions are useless distractions.   
   >   
   > Excellent! There has been a meeting of minds! ;)   
      
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