contrariety

• Sadly for all of us, and for Ted Sturgeon most of all, that contrariety was not always a positive thing. —  F ;SF - vol 100 issue 04 - April 2001
• Under the general title of Immediate Inference Logicians discuss three subjects, namely, Opposition, Conversion, and Obversion; to which some writers add other forms, such as Whole and Part in Connotation, Contraposition, Inversion, etc. Of Opposition, again, all recognise four modes: Subalternation, Contradiction, Contrariety and Sub-contrariety. —  Logic Deductive and Inductive
• The other contrariety is according to opposition of termini, and belongs properly to movements: thus whitening, which is movement from black to white, is contrary to blackening, which is movement from white to black Accordingly there is a twofold contrariety in the passions of the soul: one, according to contrariety of objects, i.e. of good and evil; the other, according to approach and withdrawal in respect of the same term. —  Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
• But every difference of form is in respect of some contrariety, as stated in Metaph. —  Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
• But this difference is material: whereas contrariety is a difference of form, as stated in Metaph. —  Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition

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