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contrapositive
Example Sentences
In the case of the I proposition the contrapositive is impossible, as infringing the main rule of conversion.
Every positive in thought has a contrapositive, and the positive and contrapositive are of the same kind.
But take the obverse of the contrapositive of both premises: All m is p; All m is s: ∴ Some s is p.
We will show in this manner that the above is really the contrapositive of the 0 proposition.
Every impression felt is felt as a change or transition from something else: but it is a variation of the same impression—the something else, the contrapositive, is not entirely different.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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