ALL meanings of contrapositive
con·tra·pos·i·tive
C c - adjective contrapositive placed opposite or against 3
- noun contrapositive a conditional statement derived from another by negating and interchanging antecedent and consequent 3
- noun contrapositive a categorial proposition obtained from another, esp validly, by any of a number of operations including negation, transferring the terms, changing their quality, and also possibly weakening from universal to particular 3
- noun contrapositive a proposition obtained by negating and transposing the terms of a given proposition 3
- adjective contrapositive of or relating to contraposition. 1
- noun contrapositive a contrapositive statement of a proposition. 1
- noun contrapositive (logic) the inverse of the converse of a given proposition. 1