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Note that the converse of this example presents a similar problem.

: something reversed in order, relation, or action: as

oppositeとの違いは何か気になった。

Sreeram Ramasubramanian
Written Mar 10, 2014

The words inverse, converse, contrapositive and so on are used only for Conditional statements and are pretty rigorously defined in Mathematics. Whereas words like 'opposite', 'reverse' etc. are generally used more flippantly in regular parlance to mean different things in different situations.

意訳「数学で厳密に条件記述の時に使われるのが inverse, converse, contrapositiveなど」

意訳「opposite, reverseはより一般的な用語として異なる状況で異なる物を意味するときに使う」