Critic to economist: In yet another of your bumbling forecasts, last year you predicted that this country' s economy would soon go into recession if current economic policies were not changed. Instead, economic growth is even stronger this year. Economist: There was nothing at all bumbling about my warning. Indeed, it convinced the country' s leaders to change economic policies, which is what prevented a recession. The economist responds to the critic by ['offering a particular counterexample to a general claim asserted by the critic', "indicating that the state of affairs on which the economist's prediction was conditioned did not obtain", 'distinguishing between a prediction that has not yet turned out to be correct and one that has turned out to be incorrect', "attempting to show that the critic's statements are mutually inconsistent"]