infinitationn.
/ɪnfɪnɪˈteɪʃən/ Logic.
The action of infinitating or making ‘infinite’; the condition of being infinitated; hence, applied to one of the forms of immediate inference, also called permutation or obversion, in which one term, usually the predicate, of the original proposition is made negative.
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contraposition1551
conversion per accidens1599
infinitation1652
transversion1890
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 42 For the affirmation, negotation, and infinitation of propositions.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic vi. 153 A negative Judgment can always be changed in Form to an affirmative, or an affirmative to a negative, simply by Infinitating one of its Terms, or by dropping its Infinitation.
1867 T. Fowler Elem. Deduct. Logic iii. ii. 77 The same inference is sometimes called Infinitation, from the Nomen Infinitum, or, more properly, Nomen Indefinitum (not-Y, as the contradictory of Y), which is employed as the predicate.
1867 L. H. Atwater Elem. Logic 71 [Division] must not be a priori, or by Infinitation.
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