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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Negation \Ne*ga"tion\, n. [L. negatio, fr. negare to say no, to deny; ne not + the root of aio I say; cf. Gr. ?, Skr. ah to say; cf. F. n['e]gation. See No, adv., and cf. Adage, Deny, Renegade.]
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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.
Our assertions and negations should be yea and nay.
--Rogers. (Logic) 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French negacion (12c.) and directly from Latin negationem (nominative negatio) "denial," noun of action from past participle stem of negare "deny, say no" (see deny).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act of negating something. 2 (context countable English) A denial or contradiction. 3 (context logic countable English) 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".) 4 (context logic English) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
WordNet
n. a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
the speech act of negating
(logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
Wikipedia
In logic, negation, also called logical complement, is an operation that takes a proposition p to another proposition "not p", written ¬p, which is interpreted intuitively as being true when p is false and false when p is true. Negation is thus a unary (single-argument) logical connective. It may be applied as an operation on propositions, truth values, or semantic values more generally. In classical logic, negation is normally identified with the truth function that takes truth to falsity and vice versa. In intuitionistic logic, according to the Brouwer–Heyting–Kolmogorov interpretation, the negation of a proposition p is the proposition whose proofs are the refutations of p.
Negation was a comic book series published from CrossGen. Tony Bedard was the writer for the entire run. Paul Pelletier was the artist for most of the issues, with an occasional fill-in artist on some issues.
The series started with the Negation Prequel in late 2001. 27 regular issues followed the prequel. The series concerned a group of different alien races that had been taken prisoner and brought to the Negation universe. A number of the prisoners had innate superhuman powers while many, like Obregon Kaine, were ordinary humans. His tactical military experience made him able to lead the prisoners. He masterminded the plan that allowed a number of his fellow prisoners to escape the prison planet all of them were being held in. The series details the adventures which Kaine and the rest had in Negation space. The series ended with issue 27. CrossGen tried to wrap up all the dangling storylines in the Negation: War mini-series. CrossGen had to declare bankruptcy before the series could be finished. Only two issues of Negation: War were published.
In October 2004, writer Tony Bedard was quoted laying out a design for the future of the characters in an interview.
CrossGen released two trade paperback books which contained the first part of the series.
- Negation Volume 1: BOHICA
- Negation Volume 2: Baptism of Fire
Two more books were released May 25, 2007:
- Negation Volume 3: Hounded
- Negation Volume 4: Shock and Awe
CrossGen Chronicles #7, Negation: Lawbringer, and the Mark of Charon mini-series were Negation-related books that CrossGen published. All the stories were written by Tony Bedard and expand the universe created in the main Negation series.
Negation is a connective in logic and an operation computing that maps true to false and false to true. It may also refer to:
- Negation (linguistics), a grammatical operation by which a proposition is replaced by one that states the opposite, as by the addition of not
- Negation (comics), a CrossGen comic
- The Negation, an album by the Polish metal band Decapitated
- Negationism, an illegitimate historical revisionist process that minimizes, denies or ignores essential facts
"Negation" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in 1918, so it is in the public domain.
This poem was Section VII of the poem—sequence "Lettres d'un Soldat" (1918). It was extracted as "Negation" for inclusion in the second edition of Harmonium. It may reflect Stevens's reading of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, according to Bates. The poem's image of God as bungling potter recalls Zarathustra's dialogue with the last pope, in which God is similarly characterized.
Another Harmonium poem that clearly reflects Stevens's reading of Nietzsche is " The Surprises of the Superhuman", which was also extracted from "Lettres d'un Soldat" for inclusion in the second edition.
The poem is notable for its arch wit and the anti-poetical salutation, "Hi!", rather than as a solution to the problem of evil.
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).