What is the act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary called?
conversion — (Logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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