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Definition of Contrapositions
1. contraposition [n] - See also: contraposition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contrapositions
Literary usage of Contrapositions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The history of philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes (1880)
"But the union of contrapositions in one subject is contradictory. The Ego is
therefore posited as a Contradiction. It is this Contradiction in virtue of its ..."
2. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"... but also the progress of the season by the four contrapositions apparent in
the course of a year, if observed at a fixed hour of the night. ..."
3. The Book of Elizabethan Verse by William Stanley Braithwaite (1908)
"Yet these propositions and contrapositions are so common in love-poets, that the
feeling may have originated with Sir Thomas himself; though he was a ..."
4. The Principle of Protestantism as Related to the Present State of the Church by Philip Schaff (1845)
"... history involves a continual progress towards something better, by means of
dialectic contrapositions, (Gegensaetze), is substantially true and correct. ..."
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