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Example sentences for "negation"

Lexicographically close words:
negat; negate; negated; negates; negating; negations; negative; negatived; negatively; negatives
  1. It was intricate and deeply involved with the growing consciousness that property without anyone to leave it to is the negation of true Forsyteism.

  2. This, then, was the populace, the innumerable living negation of gentility and Forsyteism.

  3. It demands no effort to comprehend its one universal negation and it taxes no skill to expound it.

  4. N(E) is the negation of all the values of the propositional variable E.

  5. The proposition 'PPp' is not about negation, as if negation were an object: on the other hand, the possibility of negation is already written into affirmation.

  6. This operation negates all the propositions in the right-hand pair of brackets, and I call it the negation of those propositions.

  7. The occurrence of negation in a proposition is not enough to characterize its sense (PPp = p).

  8. One could say that negation must be related to the logical place determined by the negated proposition.

  9. Negation reverses the sense of a proposition.

  10. For example, an affirmation can be produced by double negation: in such a case does it follow that in some sense negation is contained in affirmation?

  11. It is the tragic necessity of self-negation that haloes, even in secular life, the sacrificial attitude: But there is in resignation a further good element.

  12. In some people this negation or effacement of the self is a predominant characteristic.

  13. Through the negation of self rather than through its fulfillment men have found solace and rest.

  14. The Epic of Dante is Johannite and Gnostic, an audacious application, like that of the Apocalypse, of the figures and numbers of the Kabalah to the Christian dogmas, and a secret negation of every thing absolute in these dogmas.

  15. The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh reversed; for Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God.

  16. We use the word, but it conveys to us only the idea of the absence and negation of materiality; which vanishing, Space and Time alone, infinite and boundless, seem to us to be left.

  17. Why not unite in community of negation rather than of assertion?

  18. Such a doctrine--so absolutely stated--is rather a negation of all morality than a lax morality.

  19. A Whig stinks in his nostrils because to his eye modern Whiggism is 'a negation of all principles.

  20. In Lydia's negation was a touch of the irritation that was often during these days in her attitude toward her godfather.

  21. Lydia proffered this negation in so halting an accent that Rankin burst into another peal of laughter.

  22. He is the negation of everything you mean.

  23. And that with which he found himself one was far from any human thoughts or emotions; rather it was the negation of them, the infinite negation of finite restlessness.

  24. That he was the negation of everything I believed in.

  25. The hermits of the desert assumed that the way of true life lay in the repression of all bodily desire and as much negation of the body as is consistent with mere existence.

  26. This startling negation of all he imagined, unnerved Eaton.

  27. Connery shook his head, not in negation of the question, but in refusal to answer then.

  28. Equality is a war cry for fools--a negation of nature, an abortion.

  29. A death without a cause--a negation of science surely?

  30. The end of all opposition is negation, and negation is nothing.

  31. The latter is founded on discipline; the former on the negation of discipline.

  32. The negation of will and desire is the only= 40 =road to deliverance.

  33. This system is fatalism, because it is the absolute negation of liberty.

  34. Now this theory advanced in opposition to a self-determining will, is plainly the negation of liberty as opposed to necessity.

  35. In a note upon this line, he remarks: "This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity.

  36. Pantheism is really the negation of a creative Deity,--the identity or at least necessary and eternal co-existence of God and the universe.

  37. Fatalism is the absolute negation of liberty.

  38. It is not a negation of cause and effect, for the act of the will is determined by the feelings, thoughts, inclinations, which precede it; it may be determined by reflection as opposed to the impressions of the moment.

  39. Whilst communism is the negation of Property, we find in our doctrine of Community the most explicit affirmation and the most positive demonstration of property.

  40. It is impossible for the reader not to perceive that these authors lead us to a negation of Property, and lead us to it very logically, in setting out with the proposition that the proprietor is paid for the gifts of God.

  41. Two things have I demanded of thee, O Jahveh, Deny me them not before I die: Frivolity and blasphemous words And negation remove far from me.

  42. The Republican party in 1920 was an agglomeration of minorities, held together by no better binder than the negation of Wilsonism.

  43. All these inhibitory influences which generally produce negation do not estop Mr. Hughes.

  44. However it will hold to be a true maxim, whether we express it by way of negation or interrogation.

  45. Such a question is easily answered: Protestantism as a positive religion no longer exists in Prussia or elsewhere; and Protestantism as a negation exists everywhere, perhaps more in some Catholic lands than in Prussia.

  46. A simple negation is nothing, and proves or disproves nothing.

  47. Nothing can be more certain than that true religion has never been developed from false religions, or truth from falsehood; for the true must precede the false, which is simply the negation of the true.

  48. The prevailing systems of philosophy--if we may so degrade the word whose first meaning is love of wisdom--tend to the apotheosis of the brute, and the negation and indignant repudiation of anything in man above the brute.

  49. I can understand how Greek may be regarded as useless, especially by those thirsting to throw themselves into the cut throat commerce which is the negation of citizenship; but I do not understand how it can be considered undemocratic.

  50. It is the negation of property that the Duke of Sutherland should have all the farms in one estate; just as it would be the negation of marriage if he had all our wives in one harem.

  51. When do we define by negation and by example?


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "negation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.