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Definition of Subcontraries
1. subcontrary [n] - See also: subcontrary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subcontraries
Literary usage of Subcontraries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive: With Copious Questions by William Stanley Jevons (1902)
"... The relations of the propositions just described •11 clearly shown in the
following scheme :— A Contraries I subcontraries It is so highly important to ..."
2. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton, Henry Longueville Mansel, John Veitch (1860)
"... there is an opposition of what are called subcontraries ... some men are not
learned ; and they are called subcontraries, as they stand subordinated to ..."
3. Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the by Richard Whately (1852)
"1st. the two universals (A and E) are called contraries to each other ; 2d.
the two particular. (I rv Contraries. and O) subcontraries; 3d. ..."
4. Elements of logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article, in the by Richard Whately (1867)
"Hence it will be evident, that Contraries will he both false in Contingent matter,
but never both true: subcontraries, both true in Contingent matter, ..."
5. The Modalist: Or, The Laws of Rational Conviction. A Textbook in Formal Or by Edward John Hamilton (1891)
"For the subcontraries are really, not embedded, but half- guarded, contingencies.
These modal subcontraries agree also with the pure ..."
6. Outlines of Theoretical Logic by Clement Mansfield Ingleby (1856)
"Contraries and subcontraries. If the propositions in any pair of Contraries ...
corresponding pair of subcontraries are true. We may therefore confine our ..."
7. The Essentials of Logic by Roy Wood Sellars (1917)
"I and O are called ' subcontraries.' They agree in quantity and differ in quality.
... Some men are brave' and ' Some men are not brave' are subcontraries. ..."
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