Definitions for: Obversion






Webster (1913) Definition: Ob*ver"sion, n. [L. obversio a turning towards.]
1. The act of turning toward or downward.

2. (Logic) The act of immediate inference, by which we deny
the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all
men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal.
This is also described as ``immediate inference by
privative conception.'' --Bain.

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