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particular negative

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noun

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


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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

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

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

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 Carveth Read

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 St. George William Joseph Stock

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