The phrase "affirmative or negative" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the overall meaning or tone of a sentence, indicating whether it expresses a positive or negative idea. Example: "His answer to the question was uncertain, as it contained both affirmative and negative statements."
Mood, in logic, the classification of categorical syllogisms according to the quantity (universal or particular) and quality (affirmative or negative) of their constituent propositions.
Thus, On Mystical Theology concluded by finally relativizing also the negations, because God surpasses anything that humans may possibly say of him, whether it be affirmative or negative.
It is a funnelling process, a sifting through a lifetime of all that's made a person the person they are, shaking out every irrelevance, until the only thing left in the sieve is an affirmative or negative.
The bullfrog-guard enters and gives us our orders: we will answer only in the affirmative or negative; dissent will be punished with beatings and solitary confinement; and we will forget all thoughts other than the glory of the socialist paradise in which we now live.
In a proposition, names are joined by a copula, either affirmative or negative.
You can give a more educated response, either in the affirmative or negative, with strong backing reasons.
For comparison of differences between presumptive participants and non-participants in answering screening questions (affirmative, uncertain or negative), Pearson's χ test was used.
The reference must state the questions on which the Tribunal's opinion is required in a form which allows, as far as possible, answers to be given in the affirmative or the negative.
Because either an affirmative or a negative answer would be useful, the question must be asked.
Obversion, in syllogistic, or traditional, logic, transformation of a categorical proposition, or statement, into a new proposition in which (1) the subject term is unchanged, (2) the predicate is replaced by its contradictory, and (3) the quality of the proposition is changed from affirmative to negative or vice versa.
Finally, we asked: Do you feel you had a choice in the decision about whether or not to undergo VBT? Responses could be negative, affirmative or 'I don't know'.
