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
As lack of space forbids my making here a more extended comparison of the native symbols, I shall but point out how the tau, in juxtaposition and contraposition painted in two colors, produces fig.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
This statement contemplates conversion by contraposition only in reference to the A proposition, to which the process has hitherto been confined.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
Conversion by contraposition may be said to rest on the following principle— If one class be wholly contained in another, whatever is external to the containing class is external also to the class contained.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
