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
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 Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
Conversion by contraposition differs in several respects from conversion by negation.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
Conversion, 479. of complex propositions, 709. by contraposition, 516. illative, 481. by negation, 504. per accidens, 487. simple, 486. rules of, 482.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
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