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To: Cronos

Obversely, for US citizens more muslims in the US also means more terror, more crime, more attacks on our culture, more attacks on Christains and Jews and less safety in our own homes and communities.


10 posted on 05/13/2026 5:04:21 AM PDT by Iron Munro (David Horowitz — "Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" )
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To: Iron Munro
Obversely, for US citizens more muslims in the US also means more terror, more crime, more attacks on our culture, more attacks on Christains [sic] and Jews and less safety in our own homes and communities.
Using "obversely" to introduce a rebuttal is incorrect.

Rather, the "obverse" of a claim is simply a restatement of the claim - without any change in meaning - in which an affirmative ("Some M are...") is changed into a negative ("Some M are not...") and the predicate ("G") is changed to its complement ("non-G").

So "Some M are G" → "Some M are not non-G."

The technical term, in Formal Logic, for such a change is called a "logical transformation."

The word you should have used (in conversational English - not, strictly speaking, Formal Logic) is conversely.

Regards,

27 posted on 05/13/2026 8:50:47 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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