Meanings
adjectivecontraposed (not comparable)
- not comparablehuman sciencesForming a contraposition.
Inductive extrapolation, in effect, is grounded in the contraposed universal generalisation 'where the reason, so the target.'
2001, Jonardon Ganeri, Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason, →ISBN, page 118 - not comparablegeographyHaving a coastal region of hard rocks that is separated from the sea by a belt of overlapping softer deposits.
...drift has been completely retrograded and the result is a very young, contraposed shoreline.
1913, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, The Journal of Geology, page 539
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of contrapose
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