Hi, thanks for the question. I am using the term ‘counterfactual’ (admittedly somewhat loosely) to describe facts that refer to whether things are possible or impossible, regardless of whether they actually happen
Standardly, a counterfactual didn’t happen.
The term that means “whether things are possible or impossible, regardless of whether they actually happen” is “modal”.
I didn’t use ‘modal’ because that is used to refer to logical possibility/impossibility, whereas I am interested in referring to physical possibility/impossibility. Depending on your philosophical views, those two things may or may not be the same.
Standardly, a counterfactual didn’t happen.
The term that means “whether things are possible or impossible, regardless of whether they actually happen” is “modal”.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/
I didn’t use ‘modal’ because that is used to refer to logical possibility/impossibility, whereas I am interested in referring to physical possibility/impossibility. Depending on your philosophical views, those two things may or may not be the same.