Related to these is what is said by other poets that by the intercourse of Ares and Aphrodite arises Harmony; a combination of contraries grave and acute analogously accommodating themselves to one another.
Further, the judgment of reason becomes more evident by juxtaposition of the contrary: because contraries stand out more clearly when placed beside one another.
Therefore, since it is natural to contraries to be about the same subject, sensuality can be the subject of mortal sin.
Further, no one can be subject to two contraries at once.
For anyone may be moved from one contrary without being led to the other, if the contraries are not immediate.
And though the distinction between specific contraries is a real distinction yet they are both known under one aspect, since one is known through the other.
Consequently things may be contraries in respect of a generic form, as virtue and vice; or in respect of a specific form, as justice and injustice.
On the contrary, Contrariesdiffer specifically, for "contrariety is a difference of form," as stated in Metaph.
Further, whatever is composed of contraries is naturally corruptible, as having within itself the cause of corruption.
On the contrary, Contraries ensue from contrary causes.
The same habit may be about contraries in so far as contraries agree in one common aspect.
For one of two contraries is not the cause of the other.
Further, one contrary is not the matter of the other; because contraries cannot co-exist together.
For contraries cannot be together in the same subject.
I answer that, It is of the essence of contrariesto be "farthest removed from one another," as stated in Metaph.
Love and hatred are contraries if considered in respect of the same thing.
But the power of God does not extend to the contraries of first principles; as, for instance, that God could make the whole to be less than its part, or that affirmation and negation are both true at the same time.
If any power were to have one of two contraries as such for its object, the other contrary would belong to another power.
For corruption is found only where there is contrariety; since generation and corruption are from contraries and into contraries.
Objection 1: It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed.
But in our apprehension of Him contraries exist, for the false opinion concerning Him is contrary to the true.
For passion is the effect of action; and in nature contraries are mutually active or passive, according as one thing changes another from its natural disposition.
Further, each extreme of two contraries is a nature.
Further, contraries are what differ most from each other.
Further, one of two contraries is not in the other.
Contraries agree in one genus, and they also agree in the nature of being; and therefore, although they have contrary particular causes, nevertheless we must come at last to one first common cause.
The old legend of Caeneus, who was changed by Poseidon from a woman into a man, may teach by contraries the appropriate punishment.
Between sub-contraries there is an apparent, but not a real opposition, since what is affirmed of one part of a term may often with truth be denied of another.
Both together are called Subalterns, and similarly in the other forms of opposition the two propositions involved are known respectively as Contraries, Sub-contraries and Contradictories.
And thus contraries are predicated of Christ, not in the same, but in different natures.
Now nothing prevents contraries from being in the same subject, but not according to the same.
On the contrary, Contraries cannot take place simultaneously in the same.
It is impossible for contraries to be predicated of the same in the same respects, but nothing prevents their being predicated of the same in different aspects.
So that it seemeth here to be founde two contraries in one subiect, a thing which, in philosophie, they were woont to count impossible.
On the other hand, in those contraries with regard to which no such necessity obtains, we find an intermediate.
These pairs of contraries have intermediates: the intermediates between white and black are grey, sallow, and all the other colours that come between; the intermediate between good and bad is that which is neither the one nor the other.
On the other hand, they do not belong either to that class which consists of contraries which have an intermediate.
Pairs of opposites which are contraries are not in any way interdependent, but are contrary the one to the other.
Moreover, it is necessary that pairs of contraries should in all cases either belong to the same genus or belong to contrary genera or be themselves genera.
Thus 'positives' and 'privatives' do not belong to that class ofcontraries which consists of those which have no intermediate.
If one of two contraries is a quality, the other will also be a quality.
We proved, moreover, that those contraries have an intermediate in the case of which the said necessity does not obtain.
Indeed, it seems that in defining contraries of every kind men have recourse to a spatial metaphor, for they say that those things are contraries which, within the same class, are separated by the greatest possible distance.
But those contrarieswhich have an intermediate are not subject to any such necessity.
So it is with all other contraries falling under the category of quality.
In this treatise he develops the nature and limitations of propositions, the meaning of contraries and contradictions, and the force of affirmations and denials in possible, contingent, and necessary matter.
The fundamental law of his logic is the identity of contraries or contradictions.
All thought is a synthesis of contraries or opposites.
Socrates, however, argues that contraries cannot exist in the same thing at the same time, as, for example, the same object cannot partake of both magnitude and littleness at the same time.
Is there also something of this kind in them; for instance, between all two contraries a mutual twofold production, from one to the other, and from that other back again?
Life and death are contraries and can never coexist; but wherever there is life there is soul, so that the soul contains that which is contrary to death and can never admit death; consequently the soul is immortal.
For contraries by their nature affect the same subject.
Hence there is no reason why the per se and direct effects of pride or vainglory, should not result from the contraries of those things which are the occasion of pride.
The second thing to be observed in the order of generation is that in the first place contraries and obstacles have to be removed.
The same thing in respect ofcontraries can be the cause of contraries, but not under the same aspect.
And fortitude is directed to evils of the body, as contraries which it withstands, and to the good of reason, as the end, which it intends to safeguard.
Hence their contraries are indeed to be feared; but not so much that one ought for their sake to renounce that which is good according to virtue.
Contraries are things that are most distant from one another within the same genus.
Since therefore contraries destroy one another, it seems that presumption is contrary to fear rather than to hope.
Further, contraries are most distant from one another.
Contraries affect the same subject when that subject stands in equal relation to both.
We are then sufficiently assured of this, that all things are so produced, contraries from contraries?
The knowledge too of such things as are good, profitable, and beautiful, and of the contraries to these, is obtained by this virtue; and the judgment and correction of works proper to be done are by this directed.
For contrariesare cured by contraries in the medical system.
Every cure is wrought either by contrariesor by likes.
Two contraries cannot exist together in the same subject.
There is no incompatibility between two Sub-contraries or a Subaltern and its Subalternant.
Contraries may both be false, but cannot both be true.
Sub-contraries may both be true, but cannot both be false.
The inferences are really based on the rules of Contrary and Contradictory Opposition; Contraries cannot both be true, and of Contradictories one or other must be.
Sub-contraries can never be both false, but both may be true.
If one of twocontraries is true, the other is false.
Contraries are never both true, but both may be false.
If one of two sub-contraries is true, nothing can be inferred concerning the other.
If one of two sub-contraries is false, the other is true.
If one of two contrariesis false, nothing can be inferred.
Greek: e)/krisis] of contrariesis at variance with the hypothesis of Anaximander, and has been erroneously ascribed to him.
How the taking of Contraries for Contradictories may vitiate Disjunctive Syllogisms and Dilemmas has been sufficiently explained in the twelfth chapter.
Without an authoritative Logical Dictionary to refer to, where all contradictories, synonyms, and contraries may be found on record, Formal Logic will hardly sanction the free play of common sense.
From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil.
But the followingcontraries to these are true:-- 1.
This is a very confusing game of contraries for five players.
Hence such things were called takeable and their contraries untakeable.
Among things preferred in the case of the mind were natural ability, art, moral progress, and the like, while their contraries were rejected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contraries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
