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particular negative

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.

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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.

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"GM need not characterize events in the most negative way possible as long as the particular negative trend is conveyed to investors."

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“There is no particular negative about the ‘Sorry Charlie’ campaign, but 50 years has passed,” said In-Soo Cho, president and chief executive at the StarKist Company, part of Dongwon Industries of South Korea.

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The only mode usually recognised of converting a particular negative proposition, is in the form, Some A is not B, therefore, something which is not B is A; and this is termed conversion by contraposition.

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