China comes to mind as a plausible counter-example. From Wordnik.com. [Video Fisking] Reference
One counter-example suffices to establish its falsity. From Wordnik.com. [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference
Israel is the perfect counter-example to this argument. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Case for Parliamentarism] Reference
Asking for a counter-example isn't a fallacy of any kind. From Wordnik.com. [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference
Unfortunately, we have Iraq in 1991 as a counter-example. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Guestimating Iran] Reference
And other times, it can be leading by counter-example. From Wordnik.com. [Fealty] Reference
Will Mr. White show me what is wrong with my counter-example?. From Wordnik.com. [It's All Mental] Reference
Here is a simple counter-example to the claim of infallibility. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Knowledge] Reference
One does not disprove 'some people are ...' with a counter-example. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
If anyone can come up with a counter-example, I'd be happy to hear it. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign: National Polls Are Bunk, Please Ignore Them] Reference
But to take the most obvious counter-example, what about Thomas Paine?. From Wordnik.com. [History from Below] Reference
The Madrid bombing might represent a counter-example of this phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Anti-Terror Right’s Incentive Problem] Reference
There are certain kinds of counter-example that Wiggins does not discuss. From Wordnik.com. [Substance] Reference
If moral language is meaningful, it would be a counter-example to the view. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
In which case the purported counter-example isn't really a counter-example. From Wordnik.com. [Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness] Reference
I think he was proffering himself as a counter-example: Well, what about me?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Misfortune?] Reference
You posed a rhetorical question as a counter-example to square-root weighting. From Wordnik.com. [TPM Track Composite: Obama Ahead By More Than Eight Points] Reference
I've indicated how you can go about showing that DNA code is a counter-example. From Wordnik.com. [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference
With absolute statements (“nobody”), one counter-example proves them wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Liz Cheney] Reference
It would be hard to think of a better counter-example to the conventional view. From Wordnik.com. [Sean Carman: Suddenly, It All Makes Sense] Reference
I believe the counter-example you use more closely resembles justice than vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [See Saw III... If You've Got Nothing Better to Do, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
But I'm almost sure that Virginia's draconian new traffic fines are a counter-example. From Wordnik.com. [EconLog: July 2007 Archives] Reference
This fatalism is just plain wrong, and history's great counter-example is World War II. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Kuttner: A Wake Up Call on Jobs] Reference
He said, You know, Professor Chua, my country is a direct counter-example to your thesis. From Wordnik.com. [World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability] Reference
Why do you consider this bit to be not 'actual content' — Do you have a counter-example?. From Wordnik.com. [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference
May 17th, 2007 at 11: 44 am stunney: Asking for a counter-example isn't a fallacy of any kind. From Wordnik.com. [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference
The intense hatred between the two Koreas based on politics should be a major counter-example. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » A CIA Endorsement Helps] Reference
Finally, Bloom need not have worried that Buddhism constitutes a counter-example to his thesis. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Editor] Reference
I find this a nice counter-example to any claim that English suffixation is obligatorily logical. From Wordnik.com. [2010 February « Motivated Grammar] Reference
A theory can disproven, or at least its claim to generality diminished, by a single important counter-example. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Paternalistic versus Therapeutic?] Reference
A counter-example: a friend of my son was going through his exceptionally knuckleheady teenaged years one Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery] Reference
A major counter-example: Almost no one in the United States identifies himself or herself as "upper class" or "rich.". From Wordnik.com. [What, Me Rich?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
You could not be more wrong; look at Social Security for an obvious counter-example, or the extensions of Medicare/Medicaid. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher?] Reference
The famous example of Santo Domingo is the most obvious counter-example, but it took war to abolish slavery in Cuba and Brazil. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar] Reference
You've failed to prove even one observed counter-example to the hypothesis that codes can't evolve unintentionally from non-codes. From Wordnik.com. [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference
The theory was that for poor women, the soap operas, which showed middle class, successful, small families, were kind of a counter-example. From Wordnik.com. [Can I At Least Still Sleep With 30-Year-Olds?] Reference
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