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obversion

Changing a categorical statement's quality and replacing its predicate with the complement.

Obversion changes the quality of a categorical statement (affirmative to negative or back) and replaces the predicate term with its complement. It gives an equivalent statement for all four types.

Examples

  • "All cats are mammals" obverts to "No cats are non-mammals."

See also

conversion contraposition complement of a class
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