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Obversion n. : The act of turning toward or downward.

Obversion 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."

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Defination from the web:
obversion is a "type of immediate inference in which from a given proposition another proposition is inferred whose subject ... In the obversion of a particular negative to a particular affirmative the quantity of the subject also remains unchanged, and the predicate term ... 


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