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Definition of Contrapositives
1. contrapositive [n] - See also: contrapositive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contrapositives
Literary usage of Contrapositives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophical Remains of George Croom Robertson: With a Memoir by George Croom Robertson (1894)
"Applying this to the case in hand, as (1) cannot be called the contrapositive
of (2), so neither can (3) and (4) be called contrapositives of one another: ..."
2. The Kinematics of Machinery: Outlines of a Theory of Machines by Franz Reuleaux (1876)
"... that fluids—" pressure-organs " —are simply contrapositives of the "
tension-organs" just mentioned, and that if one be included in the study of " pure ..."
3. Elementary Synthetic Geometry of the Point, Line and Circle in the Plane by Nathan Fellowes Dupuis (1894)
"State the contrapositives and the converses of the following theorems :— 1.
The sum of two odd numbers is an even number. 2. A diameter is the longest chord ..."
4. A Manual of Logic by James Welton (1896)
"... one of the two terms P and P. It may be noted that the converses of A are the
same as those of I, and the contrapositives of E the same as those of 0. ..."
5. The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1837)
"... or rather substituting a new Theory of contrapositives and Couples, which he
considers free from those old difficulties, and which is deduced from the ..."
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