counterproblem

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

counter- +‎ problem

Noun[edit]

counterproblem (plural counterproblems)

  1. A problem formulated in opposition to another problem.
    • 2006, William E. Mann, Augustine's Confessions, page 229:
      He raises the "Why not sooner?" question as an extrapolation from one of Proclus' arguments. He answers it by posing a counterproblem: the problem of how there could have been an infinity of days.
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