Example sentences for: negation

How can you use “negation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Portilla calls the shared laughing una burla colectiva (a collective joke), and states that collective laughter facilitates the collective “negación a la conducta requerida” (negation of required conduct).

  • Dole has run the most ironic, postmodern presidential campaign ever seen--starting with his campaign theme song, the only conceivable purpose of which is to serve as an ironic negation of everything campaign themes are meant to do.

  • The propagating closure of events and organization that is a cell or colony of cells, an autonomous agent, or a collection of autonomous agents is not matter alone, energy alone, entropy alone, nor the negation of entropy, Shannon’s information, alone.

  • For example, there is not only affirmation by demonstration (ergo, hence, therefore, accordingly , but there is also documentation by postulation (it can be assumed, we can suppose) and also validation by synthesization (basically, in truth, in a very real sense) as well as verification by substitution (that is to say, in other words, in short) . Similarly, there is not only confutation by disputation (on the contrary, notwithstanding, however, nevertheless) , but there is also negation by concession (despite, although, allowing that) and also, not least, refutation by capitulation (it might be argued, it would be easy to conclude) .

  • In both cases, it exists mainly by negation; it nourishes itself upon all that it excludes.


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