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Definitions for "Contraposition"
Keywords:  predicate, contradictory, inferred, proposition, brody
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A so-called immediate inference which consists in denying the original subject of the contradictory predicate; e. g.: Every S is P; therefore, no Not-P is S.
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A form of eduction in which the subject of the inferred proposition is the contradictory of the predicate of the original proposition.
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consists in contradicting both subject and predicate terms, then interchanging them; valid for and , but not for ; by limitation. ( Study 2)
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Keywords:  opposite, position, placing, over
A placing over against; opposite position.
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