Denial

Usage examples of negation.

Whenever a new differentiation is not matched by a new and equal integration, whenever there is negation without preservation, the result is pathology of one sort or another, a pathology that, if severe enough, evolution sets about to erase in earnest.

The Epic of Dante is Johannite and Gnostic, an audacious application, like that of the Apocalypse, of the figures and numbers of the Kabalah to the Christian dogmas, and a secret negation of every thing absolute in these dogmas.

His light mood had now swung back to ponderosity, and he wanted to shove his burden of negation onto someone else.

It is hard not to be reminded here of how in Christian moral theology evil is first posed as privation of the good and then sin is defined as culpable negation of the good.

Perhaps the identity in substance with differentiation in reason will be defended on the ground that Privation does not point to something present but precisely to an absence, to something absent, to the negation or lack of Real-being: the case would be like that of the affirmation of non-existence, where there is no real predication but simply a denial.

Privation does not point to something present but precisely to an absence, to something absent, to the negation or lack of Real-being: the case would be like that of the affirmation of non-existence, where there is no real predication but simply a denial.

Both in risk and potential gain, it was a major act, and in substituting common sense and courage for mindless continuance in negation, it ranks high and lonely in history, undiminished by the subsequent tragedy of assassination.

There is thus something transcending Intellectual-Principle, for we must remember that real being is no corpse, the negation of life and of intellection, but is in fact identical with the Intellectual-Principle.

It is the negation of everything that denies the individual and the glorification of everything that exalts and ministers to the individual.

Whether it comes to the point of rejecting all reality or of affirming nothing but reality, it denies itself each time either by absolute negation or by absolute affirmation.

Don Juans, attempts to take stock of his erotic life, he suddenly understands that memory itself takes part in the stopping of time, that memory does not film but photographs, since of his rich erotic experience he recalls only some seven fixed images, with no continuous movement: of his donjuanesque quest for knowledge to which he has devoted his entire life, there remain indeed only a few cliche-pictures of no great significance, a few souvenir-pictures, forms of forgetting and not its negation.

The negation of the Eleatic philosophy was Heracli-tus, who said that everything flows.

Were it so, the festival would have no meaning, for what else is it but the ultimate negation of all the petty nonfulfillments of humdrum, everyday life?

Then he had seethed with fury and guilt, seeking refuge in words and begging Chay for the negation of them that would signal forgiveness.

For the machine itself he planned to use logically coded values rather than numbers except in the metamathematical sphere, where the need to arithmetize required numbering of the formal expressions (if he could figure out how to do it), the natural number series in this case beginning neither with zero (Peano, Hubert) nor with one (Dedekind) but, for technical reasons involving logical constants and their negations, with minus-one (Lown, Bolin).