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negation

[ni-gey-shuhn] / nɪˈgeɪ ʃən /


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Here, the researchers found that participants took longer to interpret phrases with negation than they did phrases without negation -- indicating, not surprisingly given the greater complexity, that negation slows down our processing of meaning.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

And my idea of degrowth is not a negation of technology.

From Salon • May 3, 2024

But the statement can be translated quickly if you know that “∧” stands for “and at the same time” and that “¬” is a negation.

From Scientific American • Sep. 12, 2023

Had Logan meant to underline Kendall’s name for emphasis or cross it out in an act of negation?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2023

That would seem a counsel of despair, a negation of all our hopes of understanding the underlying order of the universe.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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