• (pl. ) of Contrary • (n.) Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other.
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Con'tra·ries noun plural [ Pl. of
Contrary ,
noun ]
(Logic) Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other. « If two universals differ in quality, they are
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(a) Logic: (i) Terms: According to Aristotle, Categ. 1lb-18, contrariety is one of the four kinds of opposition between concepts: contradictory, privative, contrary, relative. Those terms are contrary 'which, in the same genus, are separated by the greatest possible difference' ib. 6a-17. Thus pairs of contraries belong to the same genus, or contr....
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