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How to pronounce negation in English?

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Type Words
Type of statement
Derivation negate
Type Words
Type of proposition
Derivation negate
Type Words
Type of disaffirmation, denial
Has types cancellation, contradiction
Derivation negate

Examples of negation

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A statement is logically false just in case its negation is logically true, etc.
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One effect seems to be the negation of all those programs to stir bank lending.
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Negation of the null hypothesis causes type I and type II errors to switch roles.
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Both French and San origins have been suggested for double negation in Afrikaans.
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Thus the system would be inconsistent, proving both a statement and its negation.
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Verbs are not inflected to show grammatical tense, aspect, modality, or negation.
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It was a strange request, in essence a negation of his usual patterns of negation.
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This marks one important difference between classical and intuitionistic negation.
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A double negative occurs when two forms of negation are used in the same sentence.
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More examples
  • A negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
  • The speech act of negating
  • (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
  • Negation was a comic book series published from CrossGen. Tony Bedard was the writer for the entire run. Paul Pelletier was the artist for most of the issues, with an occasional fill-in artist taking an issue here and there.
  • In rhetoric, where the role of the interpreter is taken into consideration as a non-negligible factor, negation bears a much wider range of functions and meanings than it does in logic, where the interpretation of signs for negation is constrained by axioms to a few standard options, typically ...
  • The Negation is the third studio album released by the Polish technical death metal band Decapitated. It was released March 9, 2004 through Earache Records.
  • Negative one times any number is equal to the opposite of that number.
  • [syntax,grammar] In a very general sense the process of denying something. There are many means of saying that something is not the case and most languages reflect this fact in their modes of expression for negation. ...
  • The law that states that every proposition is either true or false. (Study 5)