counterproblem

noun

counterproblem

noun

Etymology From counter- + problem.

1

A problem formulated in opposition to another problem.

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:

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