Negation
[nɪ'geɪʃ(ə)n] or [nɪ'ɡeʃən]
解释:
(noun.) (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false.
(noun.) the speech act of negating.
(noun.) a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement.
手打:丽塔--From WordNet
解释:
(adv.) 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.
(adv.) 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.
克劳斯编辑
同义词及近义词:
n. Denial, disavowal, disclaimer.
富兰克林校对
同义词及反义词:
[See ASSERT]
贾尔斯录入
解释:
n. act of saying no: denial: (logic) the absence of certain qualities in anything.
克林特手打
例句:
- It is evident the idea of darkness is no positive idea, but merely the negation of light, or more properly speaking, of coloured and visible objects. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- For they are clearly not in greater darkness or negation than not-being, or more full of light and existence than being. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- What if niceness carried to that supreme degree were only a negation, the curtain dropped before an emptiness? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- But that I consider rather as a negation of relation, than as anything real or positive. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- For his own part he said to himself that he loved her as tenderly as ever, and could make up his mind to her negations; but--well! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He would never have been easy to call his action anything else than duty; but in this case, contending motives thrust him back into negations. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
校对:特伦斯