How To Use Counterexample In A Sentence
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Tolliver's counterexample, which he calls the pendulum case, goes like this: suppose a physics student has learned that from the period of a pendulum (i.e., the time it takes to complete a swing) one can calculate its length and vice versa.
The Epistemic Basing Relation
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The causal theory of the basing relation is a very influential theory but counterexamples of the gypsy-lawyer style constitute a major objection to this kind of theory.
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So if what Socrates means by invisibility is the first notion: can't be seen with your eyes, then the argument is not any good, harmony is a pretty compelling counterexample.
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So the crucial point right now is that, thinking about harmony is offered as a counterexample to the generalization that invisible things can't be destroyed.
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On the web, there are pages on counterexamples in functional analysis, Clifford algebras, and mathematical programming.
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It is misleading to call the counterexample the "flatness problem," and then pretend it has a solution.
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And this misconstrual is beyond foolish, for it is transparently clear what the counterexamples are for, and what thesis they are directed at.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
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Socrates never says Simmias, here's what your objection goes wrong: harmony is not really invisible or can't be destroyed, whatever it is, so we don't have a counterexample.
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This story serves as a counterexample, and demonstrates the correct way to design a security system.
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As is typical in analytic philosophy, he makes his point by means of a counterexample.
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They give reasons, they use syllogisms, they argue by suggesting counterexamples, they engage in all the hallmarks of reasoned argument.
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But Klagge took that to show that w and w* do not provide a counterexample to the strong supervenience of A on B after all.
Supervenience
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In this paper, it is demonstrated, via a counterexample, that E-stability generally does not imply learnability of rational expectations equilibria.
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If he could show us, he could convince us that harmony is not really invisible, then we would no longer have a counterexample to the claim that the invisible can't be destroyed.
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Implicit in the counterexample is that aggression must be not only defensive but also proportionate.
Matthew Yglesias » Counterexamples and Analogies
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Male widow" is one example; versions of it can be used as counterexamples to the different versions of the idea of logicality as permutation invariance
Logical Truth
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I don't rightly know, but I'll propose a possible counterexample - a 20 th-c. poet who often proceeded by syllogism at least as much as by coherence of feeling: Philip Larkin.
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P.S. The other (pedantic) point, which I forgot to make, is that you counterexample isn't really a counterexample to the theory - if only because the theory is almost tautologically true: what is a "high status group" other than a group which people have positive feelings towards and want to identify with?
What, Me Rich?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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To provide the required counterexample, just consider a model in which A holds at w, B doesn't hold at w, and A doesn't hold at w*.
Impossible Worlds
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Tumulka believes that a GRW-like theory may be fully Lorentz-invariant which is clearly wrong: his GRW-like "counterexample" to the Kochen-Conway theorem has no interactions which is
The Reference Frame
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Your counterexample is the pay scales of the US Army.
It’s our fault - for being ignorant
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Nor is King unique as a counterexample to your overhasty generalization.
Is "Magic Negro" CD Helping Saltsman In RNC Race?
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As formulated, the account would appear to admit of counterexamples.
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In all the articles maligning students of the past two decades for apathy, the media rarely deign to mention this counterexample.
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When B provides a counterexample for A's assertion, A redefines "Christian" to mean "a follower of Jesus who doesn't lose his faith", tautologically satisfying his initial assertion.
Blind Faith?
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He did not pursue a career as a poet, and in fact he stands as a great counterexample to the role of the academic poet-in-residence, which some people mistakenly think is synonymous with the poet's lot.
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To use myself as a counterexample, in psychological tests I always score off the charts in the rational measures (thinking vs. feeling, judgement vs. perception).
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He presents a powerful counterexample to the thesis that networks are structurally fixed.
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Sometimes the best way to illustrate how to do something is by counterexample.
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I suppose there must be plenty of counterexamples to such a sweeping statement, but none occur to me offhand.
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But that aside, how great a counterexample is this really?
Fighting Swiss Imperialism?
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Socrates never says Simmias, here's what your objection goes wrong: harmony is not really invisible or can't be destroyed, whatever it is, so we don't have a counterexample.
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An impossible world of the fourth kind, at which some contradiction is true but not everything is, provides a counterexample to ex falso quodlibet.
Impossible Worlds
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But none of these are counterexamples or "discontinuities": they are just a misinterpretation of the formulas.
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As a counterexample, another firm in a similar situation abandoned their original facility consolidation plan.
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Objections to the transparency thesis typically take the form of counterexamples, mental features of our experiences that can be introspected but allegedly are nonrepresentational.
Representational Theories of Consciousness
