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We can now see how the Nyāya parse negative sentences without using a sentential negation.
Given that not every apparent sentential negation is contradictory, is every contradictory negation sentential?
Informally, negative information may be thought of variously as what is canonically expressed with sentential negation, process exclusion (both propositional and sub-propositional) and more.
Clearly positive sentences (i.e., sentences without any negative operators) and clearly negative sentences (i.e., sentences with overt sentential negation and no other relevant operators present) were used as controls.
Later linguists usually follow Klima (1964) and Jackendoff (1969) in allowing for constituent negation (e.g., verb phrase negation in You can [not go]) alongside sentential negation (You cannot go), utilizing various grammatical and semantic diagnostics for distinguishing the two varieties.
Thus the category of sentential negation is S⟨S⟩, that of conjunction is S⟨SS⟩, while that of the epsilon functor 'ε' is S⟨NN⟩, since it builds a sentence using two names as arguments.
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There are several ways of generalizing the semantics and making room for additional sentential negations.
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.
Bhāvaviveka goes on to explain that Nāgārjuna employed sentential negations in MMK 1.1, because he was trying to establish a kind of "non-conceptual cognition," that is, an insight that cannot be expressed in words.
Since he also treats denials as one of the two basic species of assertion, he does not view negations as sentential compounds.
Can a negation be recorded without that recording somehow negating the negation?
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