释义 |
negation /nɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1The contradiction or denial of something: there should be confirmation—or negation—of the findings...- In Literary Theory and the Claims of History, Satya Mohanty posits a hermeneutics of affirmation in contrast to Jacques Derrida's hermeneutics of negation.
- I have long thought that Levine's negations and denials were in fact forms of affirmation and acceptance, ways of warding off sentimentality and bad faith.
- Apophasis transcends both affirmation and negation, refuting in both any possible attainment of understanding beyond the limitation of conceptual analysis.
Synonyms denial, contradiction, repudiation, disproving, refutation, refuting, rebuttal, countering, disclaiming; nullification, cancellation, voiding, revocation, rescinding, abrogation, repeal, retraction; Law disaffirmation rare disproval 1.1 Grammar Denial of the truth of a clause or sentence, typically involving the use of a negative word (e.g. not, no, never) or a word or affix with negative force (e.g. nothing, non-).The implicit negation in words like fail and ignore may be especially difficult to untangle....- What about sentences containing operators like negation and conjunction?
- At this point, the intensifier is not longer a free agent, but has become a sort of contractual associate of the negation.
1.2 [count noun] Logic A proposition whose assertion specifically denies the truth of another proposition: the negation of A is, briefly, ‘not A’...- E propositions, or universal negations take the form: No S are P.
- And with negations of conditionals and conditionals in antecedents, we saw, the problem is reversed: we assert conditionals which we would not believe if we construed them truth-functionally.
- An antinomy is the peculiar fallacy which enables us to derive both a proposition and its negation from the same premiss.
1.3 Mathematics Inversion: [count noun]: these formulae and their negations...- Hume notes that we cannot imagine or conceive of the negations of typical mathematical theorems, but this seems to be a weak hold on the necessity of mathematics.
2The absence or opposite of something actual or positive: evil is not merely the negation of goodness...- It is the opposite or negation of the first stage, and hence is known as the antithesis.
- It is merely the negation of something else, and therefore an empty formal category.
- To different degrees (as illustrated in the inferential results below) MPs tend to stand for positive usage of a value and oppose the negation of these values.
Synonyms opposite, reverse, antithesis, contrary, inverse, converse; absence, lack, want, deficiency Derivativesnegatory /nɪˈɡeɪt(ə)ri/ /ˈnɛɡət(ə)ri/ adjective ...- ‘I - no, I don't think - no, that's completely negatory, Gypsy,’ he stammered, blushing again.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin negatio(n-), from the verb negare 'deny' (see negate). Rhymesablation, aeration, agnation, Alsatian, Amerasian, Asian, aviation, cetacean, citation, conation, creation, Croatian, counterdemonstration, counterproliferation, crustacean, curation, Dalmatian, delation, dilation, donation, duration, elation, fixation, Galatian, geolocation, glocalization, gyration, Haitian, halation, Horatian, ideation, illation, lavation, legation, libation, location, lunation, mutation, natation, nation, notation, nutation, oblation, oration, ovation, potation, relation, rogation, rotation, Sarmatian, sedation, Serbo-Croatian, station, staycation, taxation, Thracian, vacation, vexation, vocation, zonation |