universal negative

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noun

Logic.

1. a proposition of the form “No S is P.” E, e

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universal negative

And in the demonstration of this, he gives one maxim in a question, which is equivalent to an universal negative, Job xxxiv.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

I can no more prove a universal negative about them than I can about the existence of life on the moon. 

From Phaethon by Kingsley, Charles

When the Agnostic speaks of the "possibility" of miracles, he only means that we cannot prove a universal negative.

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Obviously a Sorites may contain one particular premiss, provided it is the first; and one universal negative premiss, provided it is the last.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

It cannot testify to any such universal negative; and one might as well require a mathematical demonstration of the point in dispute, as to demand such evidence from us.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor