Obversion

Word OBVERSION
Character 9
Hyphenation ob ver sion
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Obversion"

What do we mean by obversion?

The process of obverting or the condition so resulting. noun

Inference of the obverse of a proposition. noun

The act of obverting or turning toward some person or thing, or toward a position regarded as the front. noun

In logic, same as conversion, or the transposition of the subject and predicate of a proposition. noun

In logic: noun

The taking of the contranominal of the inverse. noun

The act of turning toward or downward. noun

The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed. This is also described as “immediate inference by privative conception.” noun

The act of turning toward or downward. noun

An immediate inference that denies the opposite of something previously affirmed. noun

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word obversion. Define obversion, obversion synonyms, obversion pronunciation, obversion translation, English dictionary definition of obversion.

A metastate in which the obverse of the inverse metastate is not the original metastate. The transformation of an idea (paradigm) to a thought (limina). Urban Dictionary

This describes a term which is not truly a reversal but is a change in emphasis in a sentence. Urban Dictionary

The act of using a made up word that no-one else understands in order to sound intelligent or get higher marks in an oral presentation. Urban Dictionary

Obverse means the front or reverse of a reverse usually referring to coins or flags. Recto and verso are the equivalent terms for front and back used for the pages of books. Urban Dictionary

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The word "obversion" in example sentences

It turns out that Strawson's revision of truth conditions does preserve the principles of SQUARE (these can easily be checked by cases), [27] but not the additional conversion principles of [SQUARE], and also not the traditional principles of contraposition or obversion. ❋ Parsons, Terence (2006)

These are the theory of the syllogism and the doctrines of contraposition and obversion. ❋ Parsons, Terence (2006)

A similar thing happened with the principle of obversion. ❋ Parsons, Terence (2006)

Excluded Middle, 'not-wise' is to be affirmed; and _Some men are not-wise_, is by obversion equivalent to _Some men are not wise_. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

If it be true that _All men are wise_, it is false that _Some men are not wise_ (equivalent by obversion to _Some men are not-wise_); or else, since the 'Some men' are included in the ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

Take any universal affirmative proposition; convert it by obversion ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

Still, given any proposition in the form _A is either B or C_, we can state the propositions that give the sense of obversion, conversion, etc., thus: ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

Similarly, _No men are wise_, being by obversion equivalent to _All men are not-wise_, is incompatible with _Some men are wise_, by the same principle of Contradiction. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

Hence, since _The sky is blue_ becomes by obversion, _The sky is not not-blue_, we may also infer _The sky is not red_, etc. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

Similarly, if it be false that _No men are wise_, which by obversion is equivalent to _All men are not-wise_, then it is true at least that ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

Contraposition needs no justification by the Laws of Thought, as it is nothing but a compounding of conversion with obversion, both of which processes have already been justified. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

Again, having obtained the obverse of a given proposition, it may be desirable to recover the obvertend; or it may at any time be requisite to change a given infinite proposition into the corresponding direct affirmative or negative; and in such cases the process is still obversion. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

Thus, by obversion, each of the four propositions retains its quantity but changes its quality: A. to E., ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

[Obversion] is [literally] the [obverse] of subversion. ❋ Tomorrowtomorrow (2018)

[Add] life to your [years and years] to [your life] is an obversal. ❋ I, Wreckerrr (2017)

[Marcus]: "Woah, David just pulled a [wicked] Obversism on me." David: "[Bazinga]." ❋ Launch2k (2016)

The [obverse] of the [American flag] is the front of it. The [reverse] is the back. ❋ Screwston Jamz (2008)

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