| 单词 | contrary propositions |
| 释义 | > as lemmascontrary propositions 6. Logic (from sense A. 1). contrary propositions: those most opposed to each other as regards affirmation and negation, each denying every possible case of the other, as All A is B: No A is B; both propositions cannot be true, but both may be false. contrary terms: those which are extreme opposites within the same class, as black and white. contrary opposition: the opposition of contrary propositions and terms. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [noun] > opposite or contradictory proposition(s) contradictionc1400 contradictoryc1400 repugnantc1475 contradictory propositions1605 contrary1656 opposite1656 subcontrary1657 contrary propositions1739 principle (or law) of contradiction1850 contrapositive1870 contradictory terms1887 contrary terms1887 antilogism1902 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [adjective] > of types of propositions causalc1530 subalternate1599 equipollent1642 reduplicative1671 subalternating1671 pure1697 poristic1704 desitive1725 inceptive1725 contrary1739 exponible1788 analytic1797 analytical1797 poristical1828 oristica1832 oristicosemeiotica1832 balanced1849 plurative1849 molecular1892 dyadic1897 monadic1897 dispositional1909 non-atomic1934 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [noun] > opposite or contradictory proposition(s) > the opposition in contrariety1553 subcontrariety1613 contradiction1794 contrary opposition1849 sublationa1856 contradictory opposition1887 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. i. 34 No two ideas are in themselves contrary, except those of existence and non-existence. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Contrary propositions..one of which affirms, and the other denies, the same predicate of the same subject. 1828 R. Whately Rhetoric in Encycl. Metrop. 253/1 Two things are called ‘Contrary’, which, coming under the same class, are the most dissimilar in that class. 1849 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (1860) 150 Contrary opposition exists between affirmative and negative judgments which cannot be true together, but which may be false together. 1887 T. Fowler Elem. Deduct. Logic 79 It is a rule of practical Logic that a contradictory should always in disputations be used in preference to a contrary opposition. 1887 T. Fowler Elem. Deduct. Logic 83 ‘Contrary terms’, like good and bad, black and white. < as lemmas |
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