Roese also says counterfactuals can serve emotional purposes. You can think about how things could have been worse, and so feel better about yourself, and grateful for where you are.

Example 436 For each set A, the relation ⊆ is a preorder on 𝒫(A).

I have a particularly off-putting predilection for the utilization of ponderously polysyllabic linguistic constructions.

Don was referring to the time at school when Carl had first dated Sarah. ‘She was the best looking girl in the school — at least nine hundred millihelens.’