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Definition of Counterexample
1. Noun. Refutation by example.
Definition of Counterexample
1. Noun. (logic) An exception to a proposed general rule; a specific instance of the falsity of a universally quantified statement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Counterexample
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterexample
Literary usage of Counterexample
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"So Frankfurt asserted that the Principle of Alternate Possibilities is false,
because he believed that his counterexample shows ..."
2. Behind Bars in Brazil by Joanne Mariner, James Cavallaro (1998)
"The counterexample: Rio Grande do Sul Not every state in Brazil violates the
national prison law by keeping prisoners in police lockups for long periods of ..."
3. Mathematical Statistics and Applications: Festschrift for Constance Van Eeden by Constance van Eeden, Marc Moore, Sorana Froda, Christian Léger (2003)
"counterexample 2.1. Turning back to the purely non serial case (iid errors), the
most usual problem in analysis of covariance models—that of comparing k ..."
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