Synonyms:
negation
Meaning: (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
Synonyms:
negation
Meaning: the speech act of negating
Synonyms:
negation
Meaning: a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
Usage examples
Another proof.--The potentiality of non--existence is a negation of power, and contrariwise the potentiality of existence is a power, as is obvious.
The doctrine seemingly most unpopular was found to be the only strength of the people. In short, we found that the only logical negation of oligarchy was in the affirmation of original sin.
In respect to things in general, unlimited reality was regarded as the matter of all possibility, the limitation thereof (negation) as the form, by which one thing is distinguished from another according to transcendental conceptions.