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contraposition

[kon-truh-puh-zish-uhn] / ˌkɒn trə pəˈzɪʃ ən /


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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

By this abrupt contraposition of body and mind as reciprocally independent substances, Descartes founded that dualism, as whose typical representative he is still honored or opposed.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

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

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto

Conversion, 479. of complex propositions, 709. by contraposition, 516. illative, 481. by negation, 504. per accidens, 487. simple, 486. rules of, 482.

From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock




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