s, implications, and mechanics elucidated in this paper?
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    A: This paper explores the capabilities and limitations of language models (LMs) through counterfactual tasks. The authors propose an evaluation framework based on "counterfactual" task variants that deviate from the default assumptions underlying standard tasks. The goal is to determine whether the impressive performance of LMs across a wide range of tasks is due to their ability to deploy task-general reasoning skills, or if they 