contraposed
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Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences Forming a contraposition.
- Inductive extrapolation, in effect, is grounded in the contraposed universal generalisation 'where the reason, so the target.'2001, Jonardon Ganeri, Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason, →ISBN, page 118:
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Geography, Geology, Natural sciences Having a coastal region of hard rocks that is separated from the sea by a belt of overlapping softer deposits.
- ...drift has been completely retrograded and the result is a very young, contraposed shoreline.1913, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, The Journal of Geology, page 539: