That, of course, is a huge over-simplification and Charles Taylor, a Canadian philosopher, has devoted more than 800 pages to picking it apart without completely denying it.
Thursday, as McCain was fervently and completely denying the allegations of an affair with Iseman, people in all quarters of the McCain universe were vehemently denying it, too.
"To say that you have to go to work to be a feminist would be like saying being a feminist depends on being a man, completely denying the fact that we're different," Martha says.
Completely denying the values of the Cultural Revolution is not only an understanding throughout the party, but also a stable consensus of the whole of Chinese society," added the article, entitled "Society firmly rejects Cultural Revolution".
Since she was last placed under house arrest in 2002, the authorities have sought to control her completely, denying her the chance to communicate in any way with the people who gave her party an overwhelming mandate in 1990 and the younger generation that has emerged since.
After all, by only refraining for the 40 days of Lent, we are not, like Gwyneth Paltrow not feeding her children any carbohydrates – or, like someone who is fasting to the point of starvation and endangering their life– completely denying ourselves of something.
