"counterlaw" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From counter- + law.",
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          "ref": "1997, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction, page 79:",
          "text": "Though one of the great laws of the Proustian universe is the incompatibility of knowledge and desire, one of its less well-known, yet not less powerful, counterlaws, is the interdependency of knowledge and desire, best illustrated, as we shall see, by the case of snobbery.",
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        "A law that counteracts or opposes another law."
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  "word": "counterlaw"
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