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

Conversion by contraposition may be complicated in appearance by the occurrence of a negative term in the subject or predicate or both, e.g.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

Such are the two polar types, whose purest forms, however, can be found only in logical contraposition.

From Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich

Thus the reduction of Baroko to the First Figure by contraposition of the Middle is vindicated as a really useful process.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William