Meaning of Obversion

English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Obversion

1. 1
   n.

   The act of turning toward or downward.

2. 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."

3. 3
   n.

   The act of turning toward or downward.

4. 4
   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."