Counterexample and Example

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Counterexample noun - Refutation by example.

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Example is an antonym for counterexample.

Example noun - One of a group or collection that shows what the whole is like.

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Counterexample is an antonym for example.

For example, in a spoof of Fermat's Last Theorem, the Tortoise claims to have found a counterexample in which the exponent n is "the only positive integer which does not occur anywhere in the continued fraction for pi".

Source: Literature / Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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