contraposit, v. Logic.
(kɒntrəˈpɒzɪt)
[Backformation from contraposition.]
= contrapone.
| 1880 Princeton Rev. Sept. 260 Yes again, for otherwise he could not contraposit and convert. 1882 Mind VII. 441 Mutating the premisses and contrapositing O. 1887 J. N. Keynes Formal Logic (ed. 2) ii. viii. 144 Under our present supposition..we may contraposit (β). 1906 [see constructive dilemma]. |