Salvatore Quasimodo

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Italian Author

Tyler Cowen

A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.

American Economist

Octavio Paz

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Mexican Poet

Alexander Haig

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

American Public Servant

Godfrey Reggio

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

American Director

Ivan Illich

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

American Sociologist

Ko Wen-je

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.

Taiwanese Politician

Gustave Courbet

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

French Artist

Varg Vikernes

Life is best when lived your way and not as a negation of what you don't like.

Norwegian Musician

Jose Ortega y Gasset

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Spanish Philosopher

Use 'negation' to show uncertainty or question the truth of a statement.

Expressing doubt

'Negation' often carries emotional weight, signaling strong disagreement.

Emotional strength

'Negation' is typically used in formal or serious situations, not casual talk.

Formal contexts

In math and logic, 'negation' flips the truth value to its opposite.

Opposite meaning

Using 'negation' helps create clear true or false conditions in logic problems.

Logical clarity

In linguistics, 'negation' is used to convert positive statements to negative.

Creating negatives

Negation can be achieved with words like 'no', 'not', 'never', 'none'.

Different forms

Philosophical 'negation' can mean the active rejection of a concept or idea.

Not just absence

In existential philosophy, 'negation' can relate to deeper themes of absence.

Existential concepts

 They are represented by high and low voltages. Equations are implemented via logic gate circuits that produce an output of one or zero based on whether the inputs satisfy a certain logical statement. These circuits perform three fundamental logical operations, conjunction, disjunction, and negation.

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 rather than seeing it as a negation I came to claim it as the essence of my journey the path of a nomad someone once said to me migration makes a man perfect we often have to travel to truly see what we have just left behind thank you

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 It means a complete negation of women's participation in all political, economical and social activities. Hundreds of schools were lost.