counterproblem
English
Etymology
counter- + problem
Noun
counterproblem (plural counterproblems)
- 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.
- 2006, William E. Mann, Augustine's Confessions (page 229)