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
They are all remarkable for harmonies attained by certain combinations of shade in gradations with colours in contraposition.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
By this abrupt contraposition of body and mind as reciprocally independent substances, Descartes founded that dualism, as whose typical representative he is still honored or opposed.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
Inversion -- N. inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion; contraposition &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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