What is "contrary to fact"

Usage examples of "contrary to fact".

Ordinarily, we don't have to think much about counterfactuals, precisely because they are contrary to fact.

He was playing to a gallery-the entire restaurant was quiet now, the diners ostentatiously paying no attention, a pose contrary to fact.

In this Autumn cold, out in the Rain, beneath the generally unseen rising of the Pleiades, has she been trouping on, cheerfully rendering subjunctive, or contrary to fact, familiar laws of nature and of common sense.

The only manner in which it is possible to account for an assertion so contrary to fact, is by supposing that a detached memorandum of what our author had observed in the spice islands (which there is great probability of his having visited whilst in the service of the emperor) has been introduced in a description where it is entirely irrelevant.