What is the meaning of Contraposition?

  • (n.) A placing over against; opposite position.
  • (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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