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Converse

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Converse (in logic), the transposition of the subject and predicate in a proposition. The proposition 'X is Y,' converted, becomes 'Y is X.' 'By far the most fertile source of purely syllogistic fallacies is the tendency of the mind to convert universal affirmatives without limitation.'-Bain's Logic, Deduction, p. 114.

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