contraposition

contraposition
/kon'treuh peuh zish"euhn/, n.
1. placement opposite or against.
2. opposition, contrast, or antithesis.
3. Logic. the inference drawn from a proposition by negating its terms and changing their order, as by inferring "Not B implies not A" from "A implies B."
[1545-55; < LL contraposition- (s. of contrapositio). See CONTRA-1, POSITION]

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