counterfinality noun2 •A set of circumstances in which one phenomenon (such as a group of people) opposes or undermines another phenomenon that produces or sustains it (for example, peasants deforesting hillsides in order to expand cultivatable land, resulting in flooding and the loss of the same).Of itself, counterfinality gives rise only to necessity, and there is no guarantee that it will ever be overcome by group praxis. — 1986 •The tendency to increase ones value of or commitment to something when it involves unanticipated negative side effects. formscounterfinalities
