Terms of opposite meaning which may be applied to statements, verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances.
1 But affirmation and negation are true of essence and of person.
2 But affirmation and negation do not belong to the senses.
3 Therefore he must know affirmation and negation by diverse species.
4 For where a diverse signification exists, there is no contradiction of affirmation and negation ; for equivocation prevents contradiction.
5 On the whole we find considerable diversity in the signs of affirmation and negation in the different races of man.
6 REMARK 2.-Whenthe antithesis is between affirmation and negation , the latter usually has the rising inflection, according to Rule V.
7 But in the case of affirmation and negation , whether the subject exists or not, one is always false and the other true.
8 There is in the mind no volition or affirmation and negation , save that which an idea, inasmuch as it is an idea, involves.
9 1: Affirmation and negation are reduced to one same genus: e.g.
10 3: Further, omission and commission differ as affirmation and negation .
11 We therefore recognise predication as being of two kinds- affirmationand negation-correspondingto which there are two forms of copula.
12 2: Further, simultaneous affirmation and negation of the same things in the same respect cannot be true.
13 2: The various natures of things differ less as to their mode of existing than do affirmation and negation .
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