Negation

Word NEGATION
Character 8
Hyphenation ne ga tion
Pronunciations /nəˈɡeɪʃən/

Definitions and meanings of "Negation"

What do we mean by negation?

The act or process of negating. noun

A denial, contradiction, or negative statement. noun

The opposite or absence of something regarded as actual, positive, or affirmative. noun

The act of denying or of negativing; the opposite of the act of affirming. noun

A denial; a declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be. noun

The absence of that which is positive or affirmative; blankness; emptiness. noun

The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation. noun

Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has. noun

The act of negating something. noun

A denial or contradiction. noun

A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".) noun

The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions. noun

A negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement noun

(logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false noun

The speech act of negating noun

The act of negating something.

A denial or contradiction.

A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)

The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Negation

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The word "negation" in example sentences

Sorry, strictly speaking, the negation is applied to the verb and the verb to the subject. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The traditional objection to double negatives (in English only, given that double negation is common in other languages) is that they can be misinterpreted as positives (“It is not unimportant”). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The negation of the negation is something like faith revealed as lies (which is why we revile hypocritical priests and pastors so very much). ❋ Unknown (2009)

This final act of negation is a hammer-blow to both Jokla and the reader. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

For a human being, this state of negation is the highest state: one must immerse oneself in this nothing, in the eternal tranquillity of the nothing generally, in the substantial in which all determinations cease, where there is no virtue or intelligence, where all movement annuls itself. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One can tell that Hegel was inspired by the rangtong view in his use of "highest" to describe emptiness: "For a human being, this state of negation is the highest state" (Religion 254). ❋ Unknown (2007)

In addition to predicate denial, in which a predicate F is denied of a subject a, Aristotelian logic allows for narrow-scope predicate term negation, in which a negative predicate not-F is affirmed of a. The relation of predicate denial and predicate term negation to a simple affirmative proposition can be schematized on a generalized square of opposition ❋ Horn, Laurence R. (2006)

He waved his hand in negation, bowed, smiled, and rode on. ❋ Unknown (1888)

The negation is twofold: He needeth not to offer (1) daily; nor (2) to offer for His own sins also; for He offered ❋ Unknown (1871)

The notion that double negation is in any way problematic sounds like another one of those “But that’s illogical!” rules that arose from the same source as the no-split-infinitives and no-post-position-prepositions rules. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The second problem, the non-parallel negation, is also not so bad because it’s hard to make a negative phrase that means the same as is independent. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In all which we shall find some kind of affirmation or negation, which is the reason of that denomination. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The remainder of the chapter deals with the function of the negation, which is to remove the composition found in whatever it covers, and discusses some well-known sophisma-sentences which turn on the specific function of negation. ❋ Spruyt, Joke (2007)

He “negates the negation” and the negation of the negation is the affirmation of God. ❋ Harvey, Van A. (2007)

To put it bluntly, both of these things stink and in future posts I'll be following these issues: the constant, daily exclusion of American Indian people from virtually every U.S. poll and everything else, and the use of this idiotic, pejorative negation "non-white". ❋ Marian (2006)

An affirmation is a statement affirming something of something, a negation is a statement denying something of something ¦ It is clear that for every affirmation there is an opposite negation, and for every negation there is an opposite affirmation ¦ Let us call an affirmation and a negation which are opposite a contradiction (De Interpretatione 17a25-35). ❋ Horn, Laurence R. (2006)

A close relation between connexive logic and the idea of negation as cancellation has been observed by Routley (1978), Routley et al. (1982), and Routley and Routley (1985). ❋ Wansing, Heinrich (2006)

These two connexive logics arise from the idea of negation as cancellation in a straightforward way. ❋ Wansing, Heinrich (2006)

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