Sentence examples for corresponding affirmative from inspiring English sources

Negative contingency premises are converted to corresponding affirmative contingency propositions and these by the conversion of terms to particular contingency propositions).

Many philosophers, linguists, and psychologists have situated this asymmetry in logic or semantics, as in the claim that every negation presupposes a corresponding affirmative (but not vice versa).

The strengthening of a negated plural definite (The kids aren't sleeping) or bare plural (Beavers don't eat cheese) from a contradictory to a contrary of the corresponding affirmative.

As a mode of predication, the "predicate denial" of Aristotelian term logic, while resulting in wide-scope negation opposed in truth value to the corresponding affirmative, is syntactically distinct from the unary "it is not the case that" connective of Stoic and Fregean logic.

They call it "affirmative shopping" (get it? Like affirmative action).

with corresponding affirmations.

When a negative term is a contrary rather than a contradictory of the corresponding simple affirmative, to deny its application Socrates isn't a not-white log does not result in the mutual annihilation of logical double negation, any more than does the negation of a mediate contrary (She's not unhappy, It isn't uncommon).

The questionnaire consists of 24 questions related to the normal activities of daily life, each affirmative answer corresponding to one point.

The contradictory of a universal affirmative is the corresponding particular negative; that of the universal negative the corresponding particular affirmative.

Thus, there is no category in civil law corresponding to the Anglo-American affirmative real covenant, and the category of equitable servitudes is unnecessary because the general category of servitudes is broader.

A universal affirmative and its corresponding universal negative are contraries.