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NEGATION. Denial. Two negations are construed to mean one affirmation. Dig. 50, 16, 137.

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Having offered six negations, Hall brings us to the heart of the matter by sharing an image offered by Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo, in his novel Silence.
Negative theology: We know our faith by knowing what it's not
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THE OPENING PAGES OF Brian Cosgrove s study, James Joyce's Negations." Irony, Indeterminacy and Nihilism in "Ulysses" and Other Writings, are invigorating in their clarity of purpose.
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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
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Augustine and Luther for and against contemporary "spirituality"
Tachikawa takes it as his task to correct old misinterpretations of Middle Stanzas, e.g., that the text is supralogical or merely paradoxical, especially by clarifying Nagarjuna's use of the two forms of negation later made explicit by the Buddhist logicians.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nagarjuna
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The effect of explicit negatives and of different contrast classes on conditional syllogisms
Implicit and incorporated negations function in discourse similarly to their positive counterparts when, for example, covert negations are processed more readily than constructions with overt negation.
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Having in hand the basics of stit theory and a fuller account of the concept of an agentive, we are now prepared to continue our exploration of imperatives, concerning ourselves with negation. Before presenting the stit versions, there is a survey of Hamblin's classification of imperative negations.
Stit and the imperative
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Entailment: The Logic of Relevance and Necessity, vol. 2
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South Africa finally lifts ban on Kenya avocado exports

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