contrapositive
of or relating to contraposition.
a contrapositive statement of a proposition.
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How to use contrapositive in a sentence
There is an apparent exception to this when the real Middle in an argument is a contrapositive term, not-M.
Logic, Inductive and Deductive | William MintoIn the case of the I proposition the contrapositive is impossible, as infringing the main rule of conversion.
For a Disjunctive in I., of course, there is no contrapositive.
Logic | Carveth ReadEvery positive in thought has a contrapositive, and the positive and contrapositive are of the same kind.
Logic, Inductive and Deductive | William Minto
British Dictionary definitions for contrapositive
/ (ˌkɒntrəˈpɒzɪtɪv) /
placed opposite or against
logic
a conditional statement derived from another by negating and interchanging antecedent and consequent
a categorial proposition obtained from another, esp validly, by any of a number of operations including negation, transferring the terms, changing their quality, and also possibly weakening from universal to particular
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