contrapose
See also: contraposé
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation from contraposition.
Verb
editcontrapose (third-person singular simple present contraposes, present participle contraposing, simple past and past participle contraposed)
- (transitive, logic) To place in contraposition.
- 2005, Robert Malcolm Murray, Nebojsa Kujundzic, Critical Reflection: A Textbook for Critical Thinking, →ISBN, page 214:
- We certainly do not want to take our simple categorical statements and contrapose them into cumbersome natural language.
- 2006, Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science, →ISBN, page 461:
- To contrapose an argument one swaps the conclusion with any one of the premisses and negates each of the swapped statements.
- 2015, Ernest Sosa, Judgment and Agency, →ISBN, page 120:
- But subjunctive conditionals do not contrapose, and we are misled into accepting a sensitivity condition by confusing it with a safety condition.
- (intransitive) To contrast with, or form an opposite to, something.
- 1999, Richard Lentz, Symbols, the News Magazines, and Martin Luther King, →ISBN, page 119:
- At such moments, King was contraposed against the more frightening threat, his symbolism making the radicalism of the other party all the more apparent.
- 2004, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Does the World Exist?: Plurisignificant Ciphering of Reality, →ISBN:
- In fact, whereas the term existence is contraposed to non-existence, the term factual or empirical is contraposed to essential;
Translations
edit(logic) To place in contraposition
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editPronunciation
editVerb
editcontrapose
- inflection of contraposer: