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counterposition

Definitions

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  • noun An opposite or opposing position

Etymologies

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counter- +‎ position

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Examples

  • For the Nan-quo was in part a guide to utilizing sound, vibration, and counterposition of exacting weights in order to induce physical changes in organic life forms.

    Perquampi Andrew Edwards 2011

  • Psychological monism is thus a counterposition to Plato's and Aristotle's account of the soul, and has major implications for the theory of action, ethics, and the theory of emotion.

    Seneca Vogt, Katja 2007

  • His one-liners on several writers are priceless — "Paul Berman, a historian of the New Left, his subject remaindered, turns his attention to ferreting out the 'deep,' 'sophisticated' philosophy behind Islamic extremism so as to formulate a comparably reflective, comparably militant counterposition," he writes, thus laying Terror and Liberalism to rest.

    Philocrites: May 2003 Archives 2003

  • REPRESENTATIVE SHAW: Oh, no, I think that the tone of the meeting -- I would welcome a counterposition on this -- but I think that the tone of the meeting was that we did want the flexibility, we did want to give the flexibility to the governors.

    Welfare Reform Summit Press Conference ITY National Archives 1995

  • I was much pleased with the remarks, I remember, and with the counterposition of Tom Jones and Sir Charles Grandisori.

    Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Since socialism is identified with total democracy, and capitalism with an accelerating tendency to fascism, the antagonisms between proletariat and capital, communism and wage-labour, proletariat and state, are rejected for a counterposition of democracy and fascism presented as the quintessential revolutionary perspective.

    Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends 2008

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