particular negative

American  

noun

Logic.

1. a proposition of the form “Some S is not P.” O

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particular negative

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

Two more moods, namely AOO and OAO, are excluded by the rule that neither of the premisses can be a particular negative.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

Here is my "particular negative," on which to test his rule.

From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)

The universal affirmative "everybody says he's a duck" is crushed instantly by proving the particular negative "Peter says he's a goose," which is equivalent to "Peter does not say he's a duck."

From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)