Negation

(noun.) (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false.

(noun.) the speech act of negating.

(noun.) a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement.

手打:丽塔

• It is evident the idea of darkness is no positive idea, but merely the negation of light, or more properly speaking, of coloured and visible objects. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• For they are clearly not in greater darkness or negation than not-being, or more full of light and existence than being. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• What if niceness carried to that supreme degree were only a negation, the curtain dropped before an emptiness? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• But that I consider rather as a negation of relation, than as anything real or positive. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• For his own part he said to himself that he loved her as tenderly as ever, and could make up his mind to her negations; but--well! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He would never have been easy to call his action anything else than duty; but in this case, contending motives thrust him back into negations. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

校对:特伦斯