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31) Thomas Aquinas, for instance, argues for God's existence, even though he asserts that God, absent God's special revelation, is designated in univocal or literal terms only by negation because natural reason cannot know God's nature or essence.
A DEFENSE OF METAPHYSICAL NECESSITY
This example illustrates (the otherwise familiar experience) that negation takes extra effort: it often takes some time to unpack a statement to its bare proposition, so that negations can be applied in order to arrive at the intended reading.
Nemame sa coho bat'. Nie mamy sic czego bac The have pron INF construction
As Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin emphasizes, in calling for a wider scope for critique of negations of galut, "The turn to a notion of exile demands employing it also against the dominant secular order that long denied Jewish exile.
A nation without borders? Modern European emancipation as negation of galut
According to Sibley (2010), Historical Negation indexes the extent to which past injustices perpetrated against indigenous peoples by European colonisers are seen as relevant to resource allocation in contemporary society.
Politics and post-colonial ideology: historical negation and symbolic exclusion predict political party preference
And this, says Hall finally, is the clearing in the centre for which the negations made way.
Negative theology: We know our faith by knowing what it's not
Or, l'acquisition de la negation (~ 18 mois) precede de quelques mois l'apparition des pronoms (MORGENSTERN, 2006) et elle constitue l'un des premiers phenomenes morphosyntaxique marques a emerger dans le langage de l'enfant.
Prosody in the acquisition of negation: a case-study of a monolingual French baby/La prosodie dans l'acquisition de la negation: etude de cas d'une enfant monolingue francaise
Subsequent parts of Joyce's Negations are devoted to demonstrations of the indeterminacy of meaning with which the reader of Joyce's works is confronted.
The dominant tradition
An analytical concordance of the verb, the negation, and the syntax in Egyptian coffin texts; 2v.
An analytical concordance of the verb, the negation, and the syntax in Egyptian coffin texts; 2v
In example (19), there are two implicit denials He don 't care about nothing else, Not Pedersen's kid neither, and one repetition, Nothing; the first implicit denial includes two syntactic negations, n't and nothing.
Negation as a stylistic feature in Joseph Heller's Catch-22: a corpus study (1)
5) Thus all affirmations about God fall short, and only negations about God are really true: God is invisible, ineffable, beyond our names, beyond our words.
Augustine and Luther for and against contemporary "spirituality"
Setting aside a certain Ramones-meet-Gramsci period flavor (the essay is sprinkled with diversely authored epigrams) that would assuredly have raised eyebrows at October, Lawson's brief history of engaged negations ends up more or less where Crimp's seminal 1977 show "Pictures" did.
October 1981
Evans and Lynch (1973) used a negations paradigm on the selection task.
The effect of explicit negatives and of different contrast classes on conditional syllogisms

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