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
The only mode usually recognised of converting a particular negative proposition, is in the form, Some A is not B, therefore, something which is not B is A; and this is termed conversion by contraposition.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by John Stuart Mill
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
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 Zelia Nuttall
