CONTRAPOSITIVE


Meaning of CONTRAPOSITIVE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˈpä-zə-tiv, -ˈpäz-tiv ]

noun

Date: 1870

: a proposition or theorem formed by contradicting both the subject and predicate or both the hypothesis and conclusion of a given proposition or theorem and interchanging them

“if not- B then not- A  ” is the contrapositive of “if A then B  ”

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