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What is a contrapositive?

What is a contrapositive? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (logic) The inverse of the converse of a given proposition.
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In the case of the I proposition the contrapositive is impossible, as infringing the main rule of conversion.
For a Disjunctive in I., of course, there is no contrapositive.
Every positive in thought has a contrapositive, and the positive and contrapositive are of the same kind.
The standard language may be pronounced with a regional accent and the contrapositive is usually correct.
The contrapositive of the inference is logically equivalent X simulates Y, X does not have P therefore Y does not where P is understands Chinese.
And you know also the contrapositive, that your being at place X entails that you are not then in a tank on Alpha Centauri.

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