Sentence examples for negative proposition from inspiring English sources

Many people who cannot agree what to do can agree what not to do and thus can be organized more effectively around a negative proposition than a positive one.

Take the negative proposition that Socrates is not a philosopher.

Thus a negative proposition has two causes of truth".

The following is just an inverse negative proposition of SFBFP.

By the above two cases, for other cases of negative proposition of (4.7), we can obtain a contradiction.

(2) Both the subject and predicate of a universal negative proposition have confused distributive supposition, if they are common terms, as it occurs in 'no man is a stone'.

Briefly, only universal propositions distribute the subject term (S), and only negative propositions distribute their predicate (P).

In the De interpretatione Aristotle discussed ways in which affirmative and negative propositions with the same subjects and predicates can be opposed to one another.

Those that wouldn't would certainly be negative propositions and possibly existential propositions.

Negative propositions are true if their subject and predicate terms do not stand for the same thing or things.

(4) In particular negative propositions, the subject-term has determinate supposition and the predicate-term has distributive confused supposition.