Associations to the word «Counterexample»

Wiktionary

COUNTEREXAMPLE, noun. (logic) An exception to a proposed general rule; a specific instance of the falsity of a universally quantified statement.

Dictionary definition

COUNTEREXAMPLE, noun. Refutation by example.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca