To state a negative fact is to negate a statement of a positive fact.
This is because, as Russell had himself previously noted, there is "no formal test" or "general definition" for being a negative fact; we "must go into the meanings of words" (1918 19: 215 6).
Armstrong's grand design is to sweep away the difficulties that attend the admission of negative facts by positing a special kind of general fact that also serves as the truth-maker for general truths.
A negative consequence of this fact is, as noted above, that SP measurements alone cannot help to decide the molecular and ionic mechanisms active in the system.
In fact, BCR is a negative regulator of Rac, as demonstrated by the fact that it reduces the Rac1-dependent activation of the protein kinase Pak1, an activator of the JNK pathway, via its GAP function [ 12].
Reinach's defence of obtaining negative states of affairs and Russell's defence of negative facts were both made public in 1911.
A dialetheic correspondence theory of truth might be committed, in particular, to negative facts (requiring the simultaneous existence of truth-makers both for A and for its negation, when A is a dialetheia); but these may be not too difficult to handle (see e.g. Priest, 2006, pp. 51 3).
So unless, like Meinong, we believe in the non-existent, we'll have to admit that negative facts aren't configurations of their constituents and so an entirely different kind of entity from positive facts altogether (Molnar 2000: 77; Dodd 2007: 388).
In fact, cases of a negative professional assessment of the desire for children and parenthood were hardly referred to or admitted to among group participants.
A key underlying principle of the vināśitvānumāna is that negative facts, such as absences, are not part of the ultimate furniture of the world, but are just fictional conceptual constructions, as they are devoid of causal powers.
