Sentence examples for the negations from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of negating something.
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.
For this reason, Dionysius says that our affirmations of the godhead are not opposed to our negations, but that both must be transcended: even the negations must be negated.
The negations of true propositions expressing relations of ideas are contradictory.
The negations multiply swiftly, forming a rich pattern in reverse; spawned by an initial gesture of refusal, our unacted history outgrows the narrow compass of accomplished lives.
Thus, On Mystical Theology concluded by finally relativizing also the negations, because God surpasses anything that humans may possibly say of him, whether it be affirmative or negative.
Reference to De Morgan's laws shows that a negation of a disjunction is true just in case the negations of both disjuncts are true [i.e., ∼(p ∨ q) ≡ (∼p · ∼q)].
Can a negation be recorded without that recording somehow negating the negation?
"His whole focus is on an America whose role in the world is to negate the negation of the terrorists.
It is the negation of free choice.
"Whiteness is the negation of something else.
He sees his opportunities in the negation of theirs.
