contrapositive
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The proof of part ii. is the contrapositive of part i.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
He has a wife and kids at home," says twin Nicole, who then states the contrapositive of the real lesson of reality programming: "Celebs like him are just average normal people.
From Time Magazine Archive
This appearance arises from mentally reading the E as an A proposition: but, if it were so taken, the result would be its contrapositive, and not its converse by negation.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
Every positive in thought has a contrapositive, and the positive and contrapositive are of the same kind.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
But inasmuch as any positive may have more than one contrapositive, we cannot tell immediately or without some knowledge of the circumstances or context, what the precise counter-implicate is.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
