Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A proposition related to another in such a way that both may be true, but both cannot be false.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Contrary in an inferior degree.
- noun In logic, a subcontrary proposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Logic) A subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or contrary in a lower degree.
- adjective Contrary in an inferior degree.
- adjective (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; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
- adjective (Logic) Denoting the relation of opposition between the
particular affirmative andparticular negative . Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun logic Either of a
pair ofpropositions at least one of which must betrue
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Two subcontrary propositions hold of the young of any animal.
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