counterfactual-reasoning

Trigger this skill when you need to assess how legal outcomes would differ if a given fact, act, or condition did not exist or were altered. Typical trigger scenarios include: causation determinations (whether harm would still have occurred without the act), allocation of fault and liability shares, delimiting the scope of damages, calculating contract breach losses, hypothetical legality tests for administrative acts, assessing interruption of criminal causation, and legislative impact assessment. The core method is to construct a 'counterfactual world' that differs from the actual world only