Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of negating.
- n. A denial, contradiction, or negative statement.
- n. The opposite or absence of something regarded as actual, positive, or affirmative.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of denying or of negativing; the opposite of the act of affirming.
- n. A denial; a declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be.
- n. The absence of that which is positive or affirmative; blankness; emptiness.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The act of negating something.
- n. countable A denial or contradiction.
- n. logic, countable 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".)
- n. logic The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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 . - n. (Logic) 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
- n. (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
- n. the speech act of negating
Examples
“Sorry, strictly speaking, the negation is applied to the verb and the verb to the subject.”
“The negation of the negation is something like faith revealed as lies (which is why we revile hypocritical priests and pastors so very much).”
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“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”).”
“This final act of negation is a hammer-blow to both Jokla and the reader.”
“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.”
“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).”
“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”
“He waved his hand in negation, bowed, smiled, and rode on.”
“The negation is twofold: He needeth not to offer (1) daily; nor (2) to offer for His own sins also; for He offered”
“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.”
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