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

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

Every positive in thought has a contrapositive, and the positive and contrapositive are of the same kind.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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