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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
The Kantio-Fichtean moralism, with its sharp contraposition of nature and spirit, is limited in the Naturphilosophie by Herder's physicism.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
In its unanalysed form conversion by contraposition may be defined generally as—A form of conversion in which both subject and predicate are replaced by their contradictories.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
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