Bible Dictionaries
Obversion
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) The act of turning toward or downward.
(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."
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Obversion'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/o/obversion.html. 1828.