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negation

1 7.3

A statement that is true when another statement is false

noun
/nɪˈɡeɪʃən/

Specialized

: negación

In logic, the negation of a statement indicates that the statement is false.
affixal negation
lexical negation
strong negation

And so this means that nothing is the origin of negation, not vice versa.

Examples

To say no to a negation implies an affirmative message; much as, in the logic of grammar, a double negation cancels itself.

Academic text (1995)
A trivial truth is a truth whose negation is false.
That is as its negation, not as the nothing.
Nothing but the negation of negation.

Fiction book (2002)
Plus can be reversed by negation, right?
I now am adding the negation of this vector.
A profound truth is a truth whose negation is also true.
"Decolonization could never have simply been the negation of colonization."

Blog text (29)
The speaker's use of a weaker term in a scale implicates the negation of all the stronger terms (Horn 1972).

Academic text (2018)
Thus, in mixing socio-historical distortion, negation, and fantasy, her work uncovers women's collective subconsciousness.

Academic text (2006)

Antonyms

affirmation

36 3.8

A positive statement that something is true or good

How Complex

operation

Specialized

30 3.7

logical operation

Formal

4.2

dyadic operation

Specialized

8.8

conjunction

Specialized

4 1.0

negation

Specialized

1 7.3

Surface Forms

negation singular

negations plural

Morphology

negation = negate (transparent) = negate + ion

Though technical, this logical sense is a direct nominalization of 'negate' and denotes the propositional denial, so it remains predictable.

Etymology

The word negation comes from the Latin verb negare, meaning 'to say no', which helps explain the logical use: a logical negation is like putting 'not' in front of a statement and it turns a true statement into a false one.