counterexample

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A good counterexample to look at are the back of house systems restaurants use. That's the touch screen they plug your order in to.

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refutation by example

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refutation by example

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noun

refutation by example

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A good counterexample to look at are the back of house systems restaurants use. That's the touch screen they plug your order in to.

I found at least one counterexample among companies we've funded: Jason Freedman of 42Floors. But there are certainly not many.

Paul Erdős is often mentioned as a counterexample to the young mathematician. Yet, Erdős pretty much lived for mathematics and didn't really have a set place let alone a normal life with wife and kids.

For a counterexample, Facebook is professional-looking and very structured compared to MySpace, which in turn is very amateurish-feeling. There isn't any question which is preferred.

But a huge amount of them do anyway, including even your counterexample, who--despite his economic struggles--was still a lecturer at a university. You could make a similar argument for young people.

Mike Rowe cited a welder's experience as a counterexample of my thesis. The fact that supply & demand makes certain skilled trades very valuable does not obviate the reality of the poor pay endemic to the field, paticularly for the semi-skilled and unskilled areas.