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Examples
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But I had rather gathered from the preface to "Negations" that you were a-- a Catholic. '
Seven Men Max Beerbohm 1914
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I had rather gathered from the preface to 'Negations' that you were a-- a Catholic. "
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I had rather gathered from the preface to 'Negations' that you were a-- a Catholic. "
Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties Max Beerbohm 1914
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[For definitions of implicative and nonimplicative negation phenomena, see: Affirmations, Negations, and Denumerable and Nondenumerable Ultimate Phenomena.]
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Negations are based on the preclusion of specific referent objects or meanings of words, and are expressed with the sounds of words that preclude other words.
Gelug Definitions of Affirmation and Negation Phenomena 2004
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These riches come via Renee, whose interesting entry on "Negations and epic poetry" also links to material on Bashkir, as well as quoting a Bashkir epic in Bashkir, Russian and English.
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I could see that what was upmost in his mind was the fact that I had read "Negations."
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"I explained it all in the preface to 'Negations.'"
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No one is a better judge of literature than Rothenstein; but it wouldn't have done to tell him so in those days, and I knew that I must form an unaided judgment of "Negations."
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When I returned to Oxford for the Christmas term I had duly secured "Negations."
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