Meaning of negation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of negating something.
   uncountable
2. The act of negating something
3. A denial or contradiction
4. A denial or contradiction.
   countable
5. 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".)
6. The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions
7. The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“As an isolating language Belter Creole is rich in particles. Particles are used to indicate⟳ both negation and interrogation: na is the negative particle and it is placed before the verb”

“But it pleased her to play⟳ on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.”

“You get⟳ the negation of a proposition if you insert⟳ "not" (or some equivalent expression) into it in such a way as to form⟳ a contradictory of it.”

“Although some of the logicians working in term logic have⟳ very complicated treatments of negation, we can see⟳ the origin of the modern conception in the extensional tradition as well. In Boole and most of his followers, the negation of a term is understood as the set⟳ theoretic complement of the class represented by that term. For this reason⟳, the negation of classical propositional logic is often called ‘Boolean negation’.”

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