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converse

1. Logic
a. a categorical proposition obtained from another by the transposition of subject and predicate, as no bad man is bald from no bald man is bad
b. a proposition so derived, possibly by weakening a universal proposition to the corresponding particular, as some socialists are rich from all rich men are socialists
2. Logic Maths a relation that holds between two relata only when a given relation holds between them in reverse order: thus father of is the converse of son of
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converse

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(mathematics)
The converse of the statement “if p, then q ” is the statement “if q, then p.”
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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
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"From Al-Buraq to Alboraycos: The Art of Transformation on the Eve of the Expulsion." Jews and Conversos at the Time of the expulsion, edited by Yom Tov Assis and Yosef Kaplan, The Zalman Shazar for Jewish History, 1999, pp.
He believed himself to be a converso and peppered Morris's family with endless questions about Jews and Jewish ritual.
Por otra parte, sabemos que el Lazarillo se inserta en un brote de literatura transgresiva, que parte de La Celestina y mantiene parentesco ideologico con textos de su tiempo, como las epistolas de Villalobos o los dialogos de los hermanos Valdes o Villalon, asi como con Erasmo y las corrientes espirituales afines como el iluminismo, que hunden sus raices en el problema socio-religioso de los conversos. Ademas el ambiente toledano que presenta el texto nos acerca al malestar causado en la intelligentsia conversa por el estatuto de sangre de 1547.
De manera influyente hasta tiempos recientes, Lofland y Stark (1965) tipificaron las etapas de la conversion, donde, para empezar, se presume la presencia de tensiones profundas y duraderas en el futuro converso, quien tenderia a buscar en contextos religiosos las soluciones a sus problemas.
Assuming that my proposed Hebrew etymology is correct, I conjecture that the word cultre entered medieval Spanish through the converso community.
He presents several examples revealing close Converso backgrounds for key Picaresque writers, although that for its most famous practitioner, Cervantes, remains inconclusive.
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