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What does negation mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The act of negating something.
  2. (countable) A denial or contradiction.
  3. (logic) A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
  4. (logic) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
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Non-standard usages, like multiple negation, are sometimes attacked on the same grounds.
It demands an approach that is the negation of purely mechanistic materialism.
Bauer's late critique assimilated Hegel with Spinoza and the metaphysics of substance, understood as the negation of form and subjectivity.
From this standpoint, rural people and their culture represent a negation of everything that is wholesome and pure about nature.
That unformulated coherence is what happens when we move from negation to negativity.
He stressed he was categorically against the total negation of what had been reached in the last four years.

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