OBVERSION

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of turning toward or downward.

2.
n.

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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