negation

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of negating something.

   “As an isolating language Belter Creole is rich in particles. Particles are used to indicate both negation and interrogation: na is the negative particle and it is placed before the verb”

2. isim A denial or contradiction.

   “But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.”

3. isim A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition, or insertion, of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)

   “You get the negation of a proposition if you insert "not" (or some equivalent expression) into it in such a way as to form a contradictory of it.”

4. isim The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
5. isim A negative particle; a word, particularly an adverb, with a negative meaning: for instance, no and not in English, nōn, haud and nē in Latin, οὐ and μή in ancient Greek.