Sentence examples for clear negation from inspiring English sources

As is clear, negation in these semantics is an intensional operator.

Only in the first of these cases, as a toggle between truth and falsity, is it clear that contradictory negation is involved (Horn 1989, Smiley 1993).

It is therefore important to make it clear when Nāgārjuna's negations are sentential negations and when they are term-negations, and this Buddhapālita failed to do.

The formulation of items followed some simple rules: clear language, no double negation, wording that hopefully would elicit the respondent's spontaneous reaction.

One of the clearest examples is double negation versus simple positive assertion.

Mr. Sollins has also created a set of horn mutes cast in clear resin; they might be about negation, too, but their appeal is mainly sculptural (Johnson).

The present negation will almost certainly be negated in turn.

Thus Weyl found himself espousing a position[20] considerably more radical than that of Brouwer, for whom negations of quantified statements had a perfectly clear constructive meaning, under which the law of excluded middle is simply not generally affirmable.

As she steps away, it is not clear if one has witnessed an act of transformation or negation, of liberation or sacrifice.

In example (d) the relation of analogy is not, as in the other cases, indicated by the domain to which an item is referred to, but by a certain negation (for example "without name"); the negations make clear that the term is not used in its usual sense.

Can a negation be recorded without that recording somehow negating the negation?