particular negative

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noun

Logic.

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

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particular negative

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

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

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 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.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by John Stuart Mill