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
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 Carveth Read
The universal affirmative "everybody says he's a duck" is crushed instantly by proving the particular negative "Peter says he's a goose," which is equivalent to "Peter does not say he's a duck."
From A Tangled Tale by A. B. (Arthur Burdett) Frost
Neither of the premisses can be a particular negative.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
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