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 Kantio-Fichtean moralism, with its sharp contraposition of nature and spirit, is limited in the Naturphilosophie by Herder's physicism.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
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
The only mode usually recognized 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 by John Stuart Mill
