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

Some particular case of C not being D is not a case of A being   B. But what is this but an immediate inference by contraposition, coming under the formula   All A is B,   .'.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

Conversion by contraposition differs in several respects from conversion by negation.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various