O proposition

<logic, philosophy of science> in the traditional notation for categorical logic, a proposition that is both particular and negative. Example: "Some trees are not evergreens." Such a proposition affirms that there is at least one tree that is not also an evergreen. Its contradictory is an "A" proposition with the same subject and predicate terms.

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