particular negative
Americannoun
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With depression, the brain can get stuck in a rut and locked into a particular negative way of thinking, he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2022
The only weakness perhaps is that your star player and perhaps least imposing defensive player, Steph Curry, is the one chasing Westbrook around, but I still think the positives outweigh that particular negative.
From Slate ● May 23, 2016
If the major premiss were a particular negative, the conclusion would be negative.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
The only mode usually recognised of converting a particular negative proposition, is in the form, Some A is not B, therefore, something which is not B is A; and this is termed conversion by contraposition.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart
The only mode usually recognized of converting a particular negative proposition, is in the form, Some A is not B, therefore something which is not B is A; and this is termed conversion by contraposition.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
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