Sentence examples for negative propositions from inspiring English sources

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

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.

How to extend it to more complex cases, like general propositions or negative propositions, is an issue we will not delve into here.

However, in negative propositions the assertion is either that the term does not supposit for something or that it supposits for something of which the predicate is truly denied.

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.

Or, as Stout writes in his Preface to Jones (1911), "every affirmative proposition asserts, and every negative proposition denies, the union of different attributes within the unity of the same thing" (Stout 1911, v).