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contraposition

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con·tra·po·si·tion  (kntr-p-zshn)
n.
An opposite position; antithesis.


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We have argued that the contraposition of the concepts of duty of care and harm reduction leads to a confused, inadequate and potentially harmful service response.
To this event Hilary Gatti devotes her essay, "Bruno and the Protestant Ethic," which takes as its point of departure Weberian theory, seeking to prove by way of interesting (if not, in my judgment, entirely persuasive, reasoning) that the relationship between Bruno and Protestantism cannot be made in the paradigm of radical contraposition.
Unfortunately, ignored until the final assignments began to trickle in, we made assumptions about each other's grading criteria that proved false and created contraposition and dissonance between us.
 
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