Negation
[nɪ'geɪʃ(ə)n] or [nɪ'ɡeʃən]
Definition
(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.
Checker: Rita--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typed by Claus
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Denial, disavowal, disclaimer.
Inputed by Franklin
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ASSERT]
Inputed by Giles
Definition
n. act of saying no: denial: (logic) the absence of certain qualities in anything.
Typed by Clint
Examples
- 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. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- For they are clearly not in greater darkness or negation than not-being, or more full of light and existence than being. Plato. The Republic.
- 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. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- 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. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- What if niceness carried to that supreme degree were only a negation, the curtain dropped before an emptiness? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But that I consider rather as a negation of relation, than as anything real or positive. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- 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! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- 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. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Terrence