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Counterexample

A case that breaks or narrows a claim

A counterexample is a case that violates the prediction of a claim, forcing either rejection or narrowing of scope. It is a specific kind of attack: not an argument that the claim is wrong in general, but evidence that it fails in a particular instance.

Counterexamples are epistemically powerful because they are concrete. A single well-documented counterexample can outweigh many confirming instances, especially if the claim was stated as universal. This is why rebuttal-first search and counterexample-first search prioritize finding them early.

In a Dialectical Graph, counterexamples are nodes connected to claims via an attacks edge. They carry their own evidence spans, scope, and source, so the attack can itself be scrutinized.

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