contrapose
verbEtymology From French contraposer.
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Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences To place in contraposition.
- Near-synonym: juxtapose
- We certainly do not want to take our simple categorical statements and contrapose them into cumbersome natural language.2005, Robert Malcolm Murray, Nebojsa Kujundzic, Critical Reflection: A Textbook for Critical Thinking, →ISBN, page 214:
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- To contrapose an argument one swaps the conclusion with any one of the premisses and negates each of the swapped statements.2006, Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science, →ISBN, page 461:
- But subjunctive conditionals do not contrapose, and we are misled into accepting a sensitivity condition by confusing it with a safety condition.2015, Ernest Sosa, Judgment and Agency, →ISBN, page 120:
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To contrast with, or form an opposite to, something.
- At such moments, King was contraposed against the more frightening threat, his symbolism making the radicalism of the other party all the more apparent.1999, Richard Lentz, Symbols, the News Magazines, and Martin Luther King, →ISBN, page 119:
- In fact, whereas the term existence is contraposed to non-existence, the term factual or empirical is contraposed to essential;2004, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Does the World Exist?: Plurisignificant Ciphering of Reality, →ISBN: