Definition of Contrapositions

1. Noun. (plural of contraposition) ¹

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Definition of Contrapositions

1. contraposition [n] - See also: contraposition

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contrapositions

contrametric
contranatural
contransformation
contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality
contranym
contranyms
contraoctave
contraoctaves
contraoriented
contraparallelogram
contraparallelograms
contraplex
contrapolar
contraposition
contrapositions (current term)
contrapositive
contrapositives
contrapposto
contrapsin
contraption
contraptions
contrapuntal
contrapuntally
contrapuntist
contrapuntists
contraremonstrant
contraremonstrants
contrarian
contrarianism

Literary usage of Contrapositions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The history of philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes (1880)
"But the union of contrapositions in one subject is contradictory. The Ego is therefore posited as a Contradiction. It is this Contradiction in virtue of its ..."

2. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"... but also the progress of the season by the four contrapositions apparent in the course of a year, if observed at a fixed hour of the night. ..."

3. The Book of Elizabethan Verse by William Stanley Braithwaite (1908)
"Yet these propositions and contrapositions are so common in love-poets, that the feeling may have originated with Sir Thomas himself; though he was a ..."

4. The Principle of Protestantism as Related to the Present State of the Church by Philip Schaff (1845)
"... history involves a continual progress towards something better, by means of dialectic contrapositions, (Gegensaetze), is substantially true and correct. ..."

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