• (a.) Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel. &bu...
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(from the article `logic, history of`) ...propositions, then it must be that one is true and the other false. These Aristotle called contradictories. He had no special term for pairs ...
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1. Contrary in an inferior degree. ... 2. <geometry> Having, or being in, a contrary order; said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex...
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Sub·con'tra·ry adjective 1. Contrary in an inferior degree.
2. (Geom.) Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applie...
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See Logic, formal, § 4.
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one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
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