Bypassing subclass method overrides

Someone in ##java recently asked a question that may come up with beginners to OOP: How to invoke a method of a superclass from the outside. For example, if ChildClass extends BaseClass and overrides BaseClass.method(), how can one invoke the method of the superclass, bypassing the override in ChildClass? This is not a very good idea from an OOP standpoint, because the child class might not expect the parent’s behavior to be invoked...

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