Definition of Contraposition. Meaning of Contraposition. Synonyms of Contraposition

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Definition of Contraposition

Contraposition
Contraposition Con"tra*po*si"tion, n. [Pref. contra- + position: cf. f. conterposition.] 1. A placing over against; opposite position. [Obs.] --F. Potter. 2. (Logic) 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.

Meaning of Contraposition from wikipedia

- In logic and mathematics, contraposition refers to the inference of going from a conditional statement into its logically equivalent contrapositive, and...
- In traditional logic, contraposition is a form of immediate inference in which a proposition is inferred from another and where the former has for its...
- argument: affirming the consequent and denying the antecedent. See also contraposition and proof by contrapositive. The form of a modus tollens argument is...
- criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Contraposition is a logically valid rule of inference that allows the creation of a...
- a categorical statement. Note that this contraposition in the traditional logic is not same to contraposition (also called transposition) in the modern...
- inference.[citation needed] Modus ponens Conditional proof classical contraposition classical reductio ad absurdum Unlike the semantic definition, this...
- and vice versa. In mathematics, proof by contrapositive, or proof by contraposition, is a rule of inference used in proofs, where one infers a conditional...
- a rule of inference is applied to categorical propositions through contraposition and obversion, a series of immediate inferences where the rule of obversion...
- is often used instead of "proof by mathematical induction". Proof by contraposition infers the statement "if p then q" by establishing the logically equivalent...
- the smaller series, Σan{\displaystyle \Sigma a_{n}} must converge. By contraposition, if the red series Σan{\displaystyle \Sigma a_{n}} is proven to diverge...