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Spanish National Police (SNP) issues 'negativo' report regarding latent print
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Isabelle Huppert-Foto da negativo/Photo from negat.
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Urgente: Donante de sangre en Mazatlán, tipo O negativo a salvar la vida de Phillip Pain
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Si conoces a alguien que tenga el tipo de sangre O negativo por favor comunícate con CUALQUIER hospital y ayudarnos salvarle.
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Estamos buscando a alguien en cualquier parte de México que tenga este tipo de sangre – O negativo, y que pueda donarla para salvar la vida de este joven.
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Isabelle Huppert-Foto da negativo/Photo from negat.
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Claro que es costoso … pero a ninún humano se le debe negar el derecho a comer y ser atendido por probemas de salud … a muchos de nuestros niños se les atiende en hospitales del extranjero y nadie sale a relucir esto como si de algo negativo se tratara.
Global Voices in English » Dominican Republic: The Financial Cost of Undocumented Haitian Immigrants 2009
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By premising its concept of "world" (or an all-encompassing framework by some other name) on an originary act of reflexive self-possession, Cartesian epistemology and the political philosophy of classical liberalism revolve a model of agency constituted ex negativo — that is, defined by the alleged absence of any inner pre-determination.
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008
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Liberalism's propensity to conflate liberty with freedom and to construction of subjectivity largely ex negativo — that is, as a strictly formal or pragmatic concept of agency achieved by jettisoning any norms, values, and frameworks that would coordinate the discrete projects of modernity's vita activa with a significant telos.
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008
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For to construe the mere absence of a readily identifiable, intuitively present motive as positive evidence of a "free will" is to assert ex negativo the existence of something that will ultimately prove absurd on its own terms.
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008
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