contrapositive

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The proof of part ii. is the contrapositive of part i.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

He has a wife and kids at home," says twin Nicole, who then states the contrapositive of the real lesson of reality programming: "Celebs like him are just average normal people.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the case of the I proposition the contrapositive is impossible, as infringing the main rule of conversion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

Or he may mean merely that mortality is a sad thing, his positive subject being men as they are, and his contrapositive men as he desires them to be.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

Prove indirectly the truth of the contrapositive of 'All A is B.' 4.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph