The phrase "a negative argument" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions or analyses where you are presenting a counterpoint or opposing view in a debate or argumentation context.
Example: "In this essay, I will present a negative argument against the proposed policy changes."
Alternatives: "a counterargument" or "an opposing argument".
The spots differ from the rest, however, in making a negative argument without pitching another candidate.
"The candidates shouldn't be the one to deliver the summation of a negative argument," Mr. Putnam said.
Since the Mittag Leffler function on a negative argument is completely monotone [35], the result follows.
If Nagel and Williams are right that any form of scientific inquiry will yield a description of the world in objective terms, the knowledge argument is nothing less than a negative argument to the effect that the naturalistic project with respect to consciousness will not succeed.
We have led with a negative argument, emphasizing the damage his policies would do.
But the president still had to engage in awkward damage control that mostly involved a weird argument about a double negative.
Finally, fourth, it seems appropriate to claim that any negative argument, like Mellor's, should be able to show that what holds true of one world can be proved to hold true of every other world similar in all relevant respects, but in which G-chains and H-chains are not equally distributed.
No one raised a single negative argument.
One is that it turns into a self-righteous, negative argument – "No to X/Y/Z" – and an end in itself, divorced from anything constructive or discerning.
In his last speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop", delivered on April 3 , 1968 King said: "We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody," he told the audience.
The negative argument is an essential first step in Hume's general account of induction.
