Can a negation be recorded without that recording somehow negating the negation?
The inquirers assume that a negation specifies the opposite of the item negated (Sophist 240b, 240d).
It is a negation that is supposed to bear no relation at all to what it negates, to entirely escape the system of relations, of conditionality.
A negation defies objectification; disappearance has no appearance.
It is by definition a negation of humanity, the opposite of life, sense, and sensibility.
But those can be seen as shortcomings in realizing democracy's ideals, not a negation of them.
It is a "vaporous" idea, a "cosmic and ethereal space," a "negation," a "nonstate".
What if the refusal to admire popular appeal as an innate achievement is a negation of humanity?
If Jan Masaryk did choose this way it would be a negation of his whole life's work.
It seemed both an ally of the pain she had been caused by the primroses and a negation of it.
"Atheism is a negation of belief, so can't be taught in the same way as other belief systems", he says.
