Definition of Obversion

Ob`ver´sion   Pronunciation: ǒb`vẽr´shŭn
n.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 obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception."


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