contraposition

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While perhaps a direct contraposition to point number one, it's worth remembering that Doc/Fest is a cross-platform, multimedia festival, as well as being a haven for the factually obsessed.

From The Guardian • May 9, 2013

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 • Jan. 27, 2012

This is equivalent, as the converse by contraposition, with— All capable of passing have worked at the subject.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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 The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll by Various

As lack of space forbids my making here a more extended comparison of the native symbols, I shall but point out how the tau, in juxtaposition and contraposition painted in two colors, produces fig.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia