Terms of opposite meaning which may be applied to statements, verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances.
1But affirmation and negation are true of essence and of person.
2But affirmation and negation do not belong to the senses.
3Therefore he must know affirmation and negation by diverse species.
4For where a diverse signification exists, there is no contradiction of affirmation and negation; for equivocation prevents contradiction.
5On the whole we find considerable diversity in the signs of affirmation and negation in the different races of man.
6REMARK 2.-Whenthe antithesis is between affirmation and negation, the latter usually has the rising inflection, according to Rule V.
7But in the case of affirmation and negation, whether the subject exists or not, one is always false and the other true.
8There is in the mind no volition or affirmation and negation, save that which an idea, inasmuch as it is an idea, involves.
91: Affirmation and negation are reduced to one same genus: e.g.
103: Further, omission and commission differ as affirmation and negation.
11We therefore recognise predication as being of two kinds- affirmationand negation-correspondingto which there are two forms of copula.
122: Further, simultaneous affirmation and negation of the same things in the same respect cannot be true.
132: The various natures of things differ less as to their mode of existing than do affirmation and negation.
Translations for affirmation and negation