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
If the major premiss were a particular negative, the conclusion would be negative.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
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 Stock, St. George William Joseph
The only mode usually recognized 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.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
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