particular negative

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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

The marking and storing of negatives in this way save hours of time spent in searching for some particular negative.

From Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 by Various

Neither of these forms of conversion can be applied to the particular negative proposition O, which has to be dealt with under a secondary system of conversion, as follows.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

And, similarly, taking any particular negative, such as Some giants are not cruel, and writing x for 'giants' and y for 'not-cruel,' we may express it thus: O. xȳ = v.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth