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

Every impression felt is felt as a change or transition from something else: but it is a variation of the same impression—the something else, the contrapositive, is not entirely different.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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

So a man may say, "All men are mortal," meaning that the angels never taste death, "angels" being the contrapositive of his subject "men".

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William