Confusion about when an alternating tensor changes sign

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On page 155 of Guillemin and Pollack's Differential Topology, it says:

A tensor $T$ is alternating if the sign of $T$ is reversed whenever two variables are transposed:

$$T(v_1, \ldots, v_i, \ldots, v_j, \ldots, v_p) = -T(v_1, \ldots, v_j, \ldots, v_i, \ldots, v_p)$$

But as far as I know, from linear algebra, the anticommutative multilinear form got the property only when interchanging neighbors. But from here, it certainly said anticommutativity between any two vectors?