particular affirmative

American  

noun

Logic.

1. a proposition of the form “Some S is P.” I

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Example Sentences

It is clear, for instance, that if the universal affirmative is taken connotatively as a scientific law, and not historically, no real inference is achieved by stating as another scientific fact its converse, the particular affirmative.

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And the universal negative "nobody calls on her" is well met by the particular affirmative "I called yesterday."

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Each figure is divided into modes, according to what are called the quantity and quality of the propositions, that is, according as they are universal or particular, affirmative or negative.

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The original proposition, Some A is not B, is first changed into a proposition æquipollent with it, Some A is “a thing which is not B”; and the proposition, being now no longer a particular negative, but a particular affirmative, admits of conversion in the first mode, or, as it is called, simple conversion.

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If these alone constituted good society in America, we might simply adopt the European distinctions, and settle the chaperone question by a particular affirmative referring to these alone.

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