单词 | invertend |
释义 | invertendn. Logic. The proposition from which another proposition is obtained by inversion (inversion n. 9).The proposition obtained from the invertend is called the inverse (inverse n. 4). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > logical inference > inversion > proposition obtained by invertend1890 1890 E. E. C. Jones Elem. Logic xii.146 The Inverse of any proposition differs from the invertend in both Quantity and Quality. 1897 T. de R. Hawley Infallible Logic xxvi. 430 Given a proposition with A for subject and B for predicate, we obtain by inversion a new proposition with not-A for subject. The original proposition is called the invertend and the inferred proposition the inverse. 1922 Jrnl. Philos. 19 463 It is true that P is distributed in the inverse and undistributed in the invertend; but in the invertend it is undistributed with respect to S. 1990 A. Sion Future Logic vii. 35 The source proposition is then called obvertend, convertend, contraposent [sic], invertend, and so on, while the target proposition is called obverse, converse, contraposite, inverse, as the case may be. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1890 |
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