Meanings of affirmation and negation in English

But affirmation and negation are true of essence and of person.

But affirmation and negation do not belong to the senses.

Therefore he must know affirmation and negation by diverse species.

For where a diverse signification exists, there is no contradiction of affirmation and negation; for equivocation prevents contradiction.

On the whole we find considerable diversity in the signs of affirmation and negation in the different races of man.

REMARK 2.-Whenthe antithesis is between affirmation and negation, the latter usually has the rising inflection, according to Rule V.

But in the case of affirmation and negation, whether the subject exists or not, one is always false and the other true.

There is in the mind no volition or affirmation and negation, save that which an idea, inasmuch as it is an idea, involves.

1: Affirmation and negation are reduced to one same genus: e.g.

3: Further, omission and commission differ as affirmation and negation.

We therefore recognise predication as being of two kinds- affirmationand negation-correspondingto which there are two forms of copula.

2: Further, simultaneous affirmation and negation of the same things in the same respect cannot be true.

2: The various natures of things differ less as to their mode of existing than do affirmation and negation.