Sentence examples for be the contrary of from inspiring English sources

What could be the contrary of any primary substance, such as the individual man or animal?

For the shape given must be the contrary of that given to the hot, but there is no contrariety between figures.

If then (1) the body, whose movement is circular, is fire or some other element, its natural motion must be the contrary of the circular motion.

There is an order where there are non-linguistic significations, yes non-linguistic significations, but they are not, accordingly, positive" And further on he writes, "This silence will not be the contrary of language" (VI, 171).

The appearance that pleasure, or feeling good, must be the contrary of pain, or feeling bad, and so must pro tanto (i.e., to the extent it is present) exclude pain, may derive from the semantic opposition of good and bad.

A man might, indeed, argue that 'much' was the contrary of 'little', and 'great' of 'small'small

For if 'great' is the contrary of 'small', and the same thing is both great and small at the same time, then 'small' or 'great' is the contrary of itself.

A man may contend that 'much' is the contrary of 'little', or 'great' of 'small', but of definite quantitative terms no contrary exists.

It seems to us that the natural sense of these word is the contrary of that assumed by the counsel of the petitioners.

For a single thing has a single movement, and a simple thing a simple: contrary movements cannot belong to the same thing, and movement away from the centre is the contrary of movement to it.

For the principle of their movement has the reverse position, since the movement itself is the contrary of the other: hence it follows that we are at its beginning and they at its end.