[v. kuh
n-vurs; n. kon-vurs] 
verb, -versed, -vers⋅ing, noun | 1. | to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions, etc., by talking. |
| 2. | Archaic. to maintain a familiar association (usually fol. by with). |
| 3. | Obsolete. to have sexual intercourse (usually fol. by with). |
| 4. | familiar discourse or talk; conversation. |
[adj. kuhn-vurs, kon-vurs; n. kon-vurs] | 1. | opposite or contrary in direction, action, sequence, etc.; turned around. |
| 2. | something opposite or contrary. |
| 3. | Logic.
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| 4. | a group of words correlative with a preceding group but having a significant pair of terms interchanged, as “hot in winter but cold in summer” and “cold in winter but hot in summer.” |
[kon-vurs] | Frederick Shep⋅herd [shep-erd] , 1871–1940, U.S. composer. |
| con·verse 1 (kən-vûrs') intr.v. con·versed, con·vers·ing, con·vers·es
[Middle English conversen, to associate with, from Old French converser, from Latin conversārī : com-, com- + versārī, to occupy oneself; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
| con·verse 2 (kən-vûrs', kŏn'vûrs') adj. Reversed, as in position, order, or action; contrary. n. (kŏn'vûrs')
[Latin conversus, past participle of convertere, to turn around; see convert.] con·verse'ly adv. |
converse logic
The truth of a proposition of the form A => B and its converse B => A are shown in the following truth table:
A B | A => B B => A ------+---------------- f f | t t f t | t f t f | f t t t | t t
(2002-07-12)
converse
in logic, the proposition resulting from an interchange of subject and predicate with each other. Thus, the converse of "No man is a pencil" is "No pencil is a man." In traditional syllogistics, generally only E (universal negative) and I (particular affirmative) propositions yield a valid converse. The converse of a relation R is the relation S such that xSy (y has the relation S to x) if, and only if, yRx (x has the relation R to y). If a relation is identical to its converse, it is symmetric
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