CONVERSION PER ACCIDENS


Meaning of CONVERSION PER ACCIDENS in English

noun

logic : the transposing of the subject and predicate of a proposition involving the limitation of quantity from universal to particular, valid of universal affirmatives

“some P is S ” is the conversion per accidens of “all S is P ”

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