contrapose

See also: contraposé

English

Etymology

Back-formation from contraposition.

Verb

contrapose (third-person singular simple present contraposes, present participle contraposing, simple past and past participle contraposed)

1. (transitive, logic) To place in contraposition.
   • 2005, Robert Malcolm Murray, Nebojsa Kujundzic, Critical Reflection: A Textbook for Critical Thinking, →ISBN, page 214:

     We certainly do not want to take our simple categorical statements and contrapose them into cumbersome natural language.

   • 2006, Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science, →ISBN, page 461:

     To contrapose an argument one swaps the conclusion with any one of the premisses and negates each of the swapped statements.

   • 2015, Ernest Sosa, Judgment and Agency, →ISBN, page 120:

     But subjunctive conditionals do not contrapose, and we are misled into accepting a sensitivity condition by confusing it with a safety condition.

2. (intransitive) To contrast with, or form an opposite to, something.
   • 1999, Richard Lentz, Symbols, the News Magazines, and Martin Luther King, →ISBN, page 119:

     At such moments, King was contraposed against the more frightening threat, his symbolism making the radicalism of the other party all the more apparent.

   • 2004, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Does the World Exist?: Plurisignificant Ciphering of Reality, →ISBN:

     In fact, whereas the term existence is contraposed to non-existence, the term factual or empirical is contraposed to essential;

Translations

(logic) To place in contraposition

• Russian: противопоставлять (ru) impf (protivopostavljatʹ), противопоставить (ru) pf (protivopostavitʹ), приводить в качестве контрпримера (privoditʹ v kačestve kontrprimera)

Anagrams

• antroscope, cooperants, coprostane, coöperants

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: contraposent, contraposes

Verb

contrapose

1. inflection of contraposer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative