contraposition

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From The Guardian

They are all remarkable for harmonies attained by certain combinations of shade in gradations with colours in contraposition.

From Project Gutenberg

Paolo Rodari, who writes about the Vatican for the newspaper Il Foglio, said the episode depicted “a widening contraposition happening in the Vatican between Bertone and different clerics who do not like his politics.”

From New York Times

Also if a man is unhappy he could not, from our premisses, by the principles of the syllogism and of contraposition, be dignified—a conclusion which should be fatal to many novelists’ heroes.

From Project Gutenberg

The New Testament sees evil in matter in contraposition to the soul; and that is clear.

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