English Dictionary

negation

IPA（発音記号）

/nəˈɡeɪʃən/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) The act of negating something. / (countable) A denial or contradiction.

日本語の意味

否定（何かを否定する行為、操作） / 否認、拒絶、反論

His constant negation of others' achievements lowered the team's morale.

彼が常に他人の業績を否定することは、チームの士気を低下させた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) The act of negating something.

意味（2）

(countable) A denial or contradiction.

But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.

意味（3）

(logic, countable) A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)

You get the negation of a proposition if you insert not (or some equivalent expression) into it in such a way as to form a contradictory of it.

意味（4）

(logic) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.

Although some of the logicians working in term logic have very complicated treatments of negation, we can see the origin of the modern conception in the extensional tradition as well. In Boole and most of his followers, the negation of a term is understood as the set theoretic complement of the class represented by that term. For this reason, the negation of classical propositional logic is often called ‘Boolean negation’.

negations （ plural ）