Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Obversion

Obversion (ob*vẽr"shun) , noun

[Latin obversio a turning towards.]

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.” — Bain