particular negative

American  

noun

Logic.

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

---

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

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

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

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

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)