contraposition
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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
Complex Proposition, 209. conversion of, 709. conversion by contraposition of, 728. conversion by negation of, 721. divided into conjunctive and disjunctive, 214. permutation of, 718.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
The only mode usually recognised 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 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart
Some particular case of C not being D is not a case of A being B. But what is this but an immediate inference by contraposition, coming under the formula All A is B, .'.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
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