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‖ e contrario, adv. phr. Chiefly Logic and Law.|eɪ kɒnˈtrɑːrɪəʊ|
Also a contrario.
[L.]
a. From a contrary position (esp. in argument); in opposition; by dint of opposition or antagonism.
1602W. Watson Decacordon 164 We were never made acquainted therewith, hauing è contrario formerly imparted our minds vnto them, &c. vnlawfully confirmed. 1957H. F. Jolowicz Roman Found. Mod. Law ii. 18 It is also subject to the argument e contrario. Words expressly applying a rule to one case may be held impliedly to exclude it in others. 1970B. Brewster tr. Althusser & Balibar's Reading Capital ii. i. 76 We can convince ourselves that this double reading is indispensable a contrario too, by the difficulties and misconstructions that simple immediate readings of Capital have produced in the past. 1989C. Bernheimer Figures of Ill Repute vii. 209 Proudhon is responsible a contrario for giving the feminist movement in France..a new lease on life. His misogynist rantings stimulated in response some of the strongest feminist writing to be published in the early 1860's.
b. Conversely; vice versa. Cf. *e contra adv. phr. a.
1895U.S. Supreme Court Rep. XXXIX. 368/1 Upon their answer he will say, then it is for the defendant, though they find for the plaintiff, or e contrario, and thereupon they rectify their verdict. 1934Webster Add., A contrario. 1947Federal Suppl. LXXI. 992/1 Just as a magazine meant for sale as an independent publication cannot acquire the status of a newspaper part simply by being folded with the news section of a newspaper, so e contrario, a comic supplement is not deprived of its character as part of a newspaper simply because it is not yet placed in physical contiguity with the rest of its fellow parts. 1980Sci. Amer. May 8/3 It is based on no a priori assumption whatsoever since it is constructed as a theorem, more precisely as a proof a contrario. |