Converse may refer to:
- Converse accident, a type of logical fallacy
- Conversion (linguistics), a kind of word formation
- Converse (logic), a concept in logic
- Converse relation, a concept in mathematics also called inverse relation
- Religious conversion, the adaption of a new religious belief
- Converse (shoe company), an American shoe company
- Seroconversion, the development of antibodies in the blood serum
Famous quotes containing the word converse:
“I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once more only the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,—those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho’ there can be no happiness without pleasure—yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.—We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“Who can converse with a dumb show?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)