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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

May it be that consciousness and its extended support are two powers in contraposition, the one growing at the expense of the other?

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

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 St. George William Joseph Stock

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


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