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Webster 1913 Edition
Obversion
Ob-ver′sion
(ŏb-vẽr′shŭn)
, Noun.
[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
. This is also described as “immediate inference by privative conception.” obversion
, no men are immortalBain.