transpositive, a.
(trɑːnsˈpɒzɪtɪv, træns-)
[f. transpose v., after positive, etc. Cf. F. transpositif (18th c.), and rare L. transpositīva (Quintil.).]
Characterized by or given to transposition.
| 1783 Blair Lect. Rhet., etc. I. vii. 122 The French Language..admits the least of inversion..; But the Italian retains the most of the antient transpositive character. 1869 A. W. Potts Lat. Pr. Comp. (1870) II. ii. 40 The English language..is compelled to obey somewhat rigid rules in the arrangement of the words... The Latin language, on the contrary, is transpositive. |
Hence transˈpositively adv.
| 1946 Mind LV. 323 If we accept the premises..that fa and ∼fa severally imply ({semE}x)..then we must accept the consequences..that they do not have contradictories; or, transpositively, if we want our universal propositions to be non-existential..we must repudiate the proposition that fa implies ({semE}x)fx. |