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On this view, spectrum inversion is a case of “sense-datum inversion”: when Invert looks at a violet she becomes acquainted with the kind of sense-datum Nonvert is acquainted with when he looks at a marigold.

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  1. noun The act of inverting.
  2. noun The state of being inverted.
  3. noun An interchange of position of adjacent objects in a sequence, especially a change in normal word order, such as the placement of a verb before its subject.
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  • Suppose the field had collapsed too soon, when the inversion was only partly completed? —  Reach For Tomorrow
  • On this view, spectrum inversion is a case of “sense-datum inversion”: when Invert looks at a violet she becomes acquainted with the kind of sense-datum Nonvert is acquainted with when he looks at a marigold. —  Inverted Qualia
  • This inversion is probably due to the need to conserve the distance between the absolute simplicity of the divine essence and the simplicity of created essences, as well as to his new understanding of the priority of essential being, as the first created thing, with regard to all subsequent determinations, beginning with the determination of the content of essences themselves. —  Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol)
  • It must be taken by surprise, by fantasy, inversion, and nonsense. —  Adventurer
  • “overnight” intrapersonal inversion, as in the quotation from Wittgenstein. —  Inverted Qualia
 

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  1. Latin inversiō, inversiōn-, from inversus, past participle of invertere, to invert; see invert.

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  1. = French inversion = Spanish inversion = Portuguese inversão = Italian inversione, from Latin inversio(n-), inversion, from invertere, past participle inversus, turn about: see invert.
 

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