The linguist Anne De Roeck and colleagues provided a counter-example: " Isn't it true that example-sentences that people that you know produce are more likely to be accepted?

As a counter-example, a light bulb radiates light into a continuum of modes, and there is nothing that selects any one mode over the other.

They argue that the United States is a counter-example of the theory, on the grounds that its middle class is materially the most prosperous in recorded human history, with America's poor being as economically well off as the middle class of other, less industrialized countries.

He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders ' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.

" In contrast, the statement " White swans do exist " is not falsifiable, since no counter-example is logically possible.

Sentence N is a logical counter-example to the unqualified definition of " omniscience ", but it does not undermine the qualified one.

A counter-example is the common technique for recording an automobile.

This was used then as a counter-example to the idea that the human speech engine was based upon statistical models, such as a Markov chain, or simple statistics of words following others.

The Clay Mathematics Institute has called this one of the seven most important open problems in mathematics and has offered a US $ 1, 000, 000 prize for a solution or a counter-example.

The key to this counter-example is what is now known as Tutte's fragment, shown to the right.

Singapore is a notable counter-example: it is located at 1. 22 ° N and is one of the world's most prosperous countries.

An infinitely long wire ( as used in the definition of the SI unit of electric current-the Ampere ) is a counter-example.

The element of forced or state-sponsored collectivization that was present in many countries during the 20th century led to the impression that collective farms operate under the supervision of the state, but this is not universally true, as shown by the counter-example of the Israeli kibbutz.

The smallest counter-example is n = 906150257, found by Minoru Tanaka in 1980.

Partly as a counter-example to Mach's principle, Kurt Gödel found a solution to the Einstein field equations describing a universe with a non-zero angular momentum.

Both of them rely on the established claim ( under JTB ) that justification is preserved by entailment, and the further claim that such applies significantly, or can be applied there coherently to the " stipulation " attributed to Smith's putative " belief " in the case of this particular counter-example: that is, that if Smith is justified in believing P, and Smith realizes that the truth of P entails the truth of Q, then Smith would also be justified in believing Q. Gettier calls these counterexamples " Case I " and " Case II ":

The epigraph may serve as a preface, as a summary, as a counter-example, or to link the work to a wider literary canon, either to invite comparison or to enlist a conventional context.

A higher GDP / capita correlates with democracy and while some claim the wealthiest democracies have never been observed to fall into authoritarianism, Hitler would be an obvious counter-example that would render the claim a truism.

However, as a counter-example, the SR-71 had reasonable efficiency at high altitude in afterburning mode (" wet ") due to its high speed ( mach 3. 2 ) and hence high pressure due to ram intake.

An outcome of the failure of the 432 was that microprocessor designers concluded that object support in the chip leads to a complex design that will invariably run slowly, and the 432 was often cited as a counter-example by proponents of RISC designs.

The differentiation operator on is a prototypical counter-example.

Whether this was true in general for Banach spaces ( the approximation property ) was an unsolved question for many years ; in the end Per Enflo gave a counter-example.

When a particular statue of the Buddha was adduced as counter-example, Birdwood is said to have responded: " This senseless similitude, in its immemorial fixed pose, is nothing more than an uninspired brazen image.

Another potential counter-example involves vivid hallucinations: phantom elephants, for instance, might be interpreted as sense-data.

Were this conjecture to be shown empirically true, it would provide a counter-example to the strong cosmic censorship conjecture.

Diamond also states that " it would be absurd to claim that environmental damage must be a major factor in all collapses: the collapse of the Soviet Union is a modern counter-example, and the destruction of Carthage by Rome in 146 BC is an ancient one.

Finland is sometimes given as a counter-example, where a presidential democracy was established after a failed revolution and more than three months of bitter Civil War in Finland ( 1918 ).

A counter-example to the above is Mateas and Stern ’ s interactive drama Façade, a novel videogame whose design and development resulted in contributions to the field of artificial intelligence ( Mateas, 2002 ; Mateas and Stern, 2004 ).

* S / MIME is sometimes considered not properly suited for use via webmail clients, however, the proprietary S / MIME capable multi-browser extension Penango is a counter-example.

Thus, Searle's counter-example does not describe a computational algorithm that is not mathematically describable.

# Proof re-examined: the " guilty lemma " to which the global counter-example is a " local " counterexample is spotted.

A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.

He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

To my great surprise and delight, when they saw the two trees they went rushing off, returning shortly with decorations from their own trees.

Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

`` Sure, we met a barrel of rich men but it's hard to find the real thing when you're young, beautiful and the toast of two continents '' `` Remember Fanny Brice promised my mother she would look after me on the road ''??

The speed is controlled by pressing on the two brake buttons located where the index finger and thumb are placed when holding the motor.

At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.

The two of them had developed into a remarkable sailing team all of this happening in a time of their lives when their youth and their brotherhood knitted them together as no other time or circumstance could.

They were climbing the hill in the night when the headlights abruptly probed solid blackness, became two parallel luminous tubes which broadened out into a faint mist of light and ended.

The accuracy of measuring the total electrical energy entering an exploding wire during a few microseconds was verified when two independent types of comparison with the heat energy produced had an uncertainty of less than 2 percent.

Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.

Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.

The artist was born in Gilbert Mills, New York, in 1886, and until two years ago when he and his wife moved to California, he lived in western New York, in Batavia.

and frightening, as when a wife tells the police that it is funny, but her husband hasn't been home for two days and nights ''.

That had happened on the day when two other unusual things had occurred.

Two of the fluids showed a high-positive normal pressure when undergoing shear, and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in comparison with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two.

Occasionally, you may come across one or two bumblebees in the cold season, when you are turning over sods in your garden, but you have to be a really keen observer to see them at all.

He concluded that in the southern species, which are rapidly growing types, females mate at the age of two and a half and bear the first young when they are three.

`` Success '' and `` failure '' are just convenient labels for the two categories of outcomes when we talk about binomial trials in general.

Sometimes when there are many outcomes for a single trial, we group these outcomes into two classes, as in the example of the die, where we have arbitrarily constructed the classes `` ace '' and `` not-ace ''.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.