Where a plaintiff's counterfactual evidence addresses only what the plaintiff would have done in a more extreme scenario than that found by the trial judge, the evidence is incapable of establishing causation for the scenario actually found. A contractual disclaimer of reliance must be considered as part of the factual matrix when assessing the causal link between misleading conduct and loss, not as a separate legal question addressed after reliance has been found.
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