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

Conversion by contraposition may be said to rest on the following principle—   If one class be wholly contained in another, whatever is external to   the containing class is external also to the class contained.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

Such are the two polar types, whose purest forms, however, can be found only in logical contraposition.

From Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich

Inversion -- N. inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion; contraposition &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark