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Sounds like it might. Wikipedia says this goes back to the 16th century.
The reason I'm not sure is it sounds like you're describing cases where a hypothetical, designed for some other purpose is flawed, unbeknownst to the creator, whereas Olber's paradox was a case of a hypothetical framed to show a contradiction in our existing knowledge of the universe.