OBVERSION Definition & Meaning

obversion

[ ob-vur-zhuhn, -shuhn ]

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noun

an act or instance of obverting.
something that is obverted.
Logic. a form of inference in which a negative proposition is obtained from an affirmative, or vice versa, as “None of us is immortal” is obtained by obversion from “All of us are mortal.”

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�y��vlog History and Origins

1840–50; < Late Latin �ǲ��ō��- (stem of �ǲ��ō ) a turning toward, equivalent to obvers ( us ) ( obverse ) + -��ō��- -ion

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Example Sentences

This process is called Obversion, Permutation or Immediate Inference by Privative Conception; it is applicable to every proposition including O. A further process, known as Contraposition or Conversion by Negation, consists of conversion following on obversion.

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Another term, Inversion, has been used by some logicians for a still more complicated process by the alternative use of conversion and obversion, which is applicable to A and E, and results in obtaining a proposition concerning the contradictory of the original subject; thus “all A is B” becomes “some not-A is not B.”

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Hence the rule of Obversion;—Substitute for the predicate term its Contrapositive,5 and change the Quality of the proposition.

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Dr. Bain includes also Material Obversion, the analogue of Formal Obversion applied to a Subject.

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Thus in Obversion and Conversion by Contraposition, the homogeneity of the negative term is tacitly assumed; it is assumed that A and not-A are of the same kind.

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