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Obversion
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The act of turning toward or downward.
2. 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.