particular negative

American  

noun

Logic.

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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