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
In logical language, in order to disprove a "universal affirmative," it is enough to prove its contradictory, which is a "particular negative."
From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)
Here is my "particular negative," on which to test his rule.
From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)
If the major premiss were a particular negative, the conclusion would be negative.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
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