Sentence examples for negating from inspiring English sources
"negating" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when referring to the act of denying or opposing something. For example, "The author's argument was effectively negated by his opponent's rebuttal."
verb
Present participle of negate
This complex theory of signification and its subversion is often referred to as negative theology: affirming our affirmations, then negating them, and then negating the negations to ensure that we do not make an idol out of a God about whom we know nothing.
Or with either-or logic, a mere logical negation involves an infinite regress in negating the "I"; one who negates the "I" retains the affirmative act of holding "I" in the mind as that which negates.
Abner claimed that the negation of the incarnation of God in the world leads to negating the possibility of life after death.
For example, the defence may concede a case when prosecutors present a DNA fingerprint that links the defendant to a crime, negating the need for further tests.
By negating the rest of it, you're negating his [LaBeouf's] agency – the rest of his voice.
Despite blurring her face, her car registration number and house were clearly recognisable in the photo, negating any attempts at anonymisation.
Thus it is false to see Chinese Buddhism as life-negating or as denying the diversity of the world.
In this quintessential Zen expression are wedded together the meontological and psychological senses of wu/mu: a rejection of an ontology of independent substances, a declaration of an originary (self-negating) nothingness, and an expression of a radical freedom from egoistic attachment and freedom for spontaneous creativity and compassion.
If relative nothingness as opposed to being is implied, it is in the verbal sense of self-negating.
They're outraged that Obama should get to delay and thereby possibly avoid altogether the potentially self-negating political consequences of his signature legislation simply by unilaterally amending its timeline to better suit his party's interests.
By way of radically emptying ourselves, we can touch that which is the radical origin of self-emptying, the absolute as an essentially self-negating absolute nothingness.
