Editing Thought experiment (section)

===Prefactual===
''Prefactual (before the fact) thought experiments'' – the term '''[[Defensive pessimism#Prefactual thinking|prefactual]]''' was coined by Lawrence J. Sanna in 1998<ref>Sanna, L.J., "Defensive Pessimism and Optimism: The Bitter-Sweet Influence of Mood on Performance and Prefactual and Counterfactual Thinking", ''Cognition and Emotion'', Vol.12, No.5, (September 1998), pp. 635–665. (Sanna used the term ''prefactual'' to distinguish these sorts of thought experiment from both ''semifactuals'' and ''counterfactuals''.)</ref> – speculate on possible future outcomes, given the present, and ask "What will be the outcome if event E occurs?".<ref>See Yeates, Lindsay Bertram (2004). ''Thought Experimentation: A Cognitive Approach'' (Thesis). pp.&nbsp;[https://archive.org/details/TECA2004/page/n147/mode/2up 139–140], [https://archive.org/details/TECA2004/page/n149/mode/2up 141–142], [https://archive.org/details/TECA2004/page/n150/mode/1up 143.]</ref><ref name="GJFa">Also, see Garbey, Joerger & Furr (2023), pp.&nbsp;112, 126.</ref>