Literary notes about negate (AI summary)
The term "negate" is used with rich versatility in literature, functioning both as a technical operator in logic and as a rhetorical device for challenging established ideas. In some instances, it is employed with a clear formal meaning—reversing or nullifying a predicate, as in the instructions for converting propositions [1][2][3]—while in other contexts it serves to reject or counteract a prevailing notion. Philosophical and critical writings often deploy it to dismantle assumptions or invalidate positions; for instance, a monist may negate the notion of God to assert a different worldview [4], or the reduction of education to mere reliance on nature is said to negate its true purpose [5]. In discussions ranging from politics to personal identity, the word underscores a deliberate act of cancellation or contradiction, highlighting its power to reframe arguments and challenge inherited doctrines [6][7].
- Thus the rule: Negate the predicate and change A to E. To sum up : The obversion of an A proposition.
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair - 2. Rule: Negate the predicate and change the A to an E by using the sign no instead of all .
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair - Rule: Negate the predicate and change the I to an O. 3.
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair - If the word “God” is intended to affirm Dualism, then as a Monist I negate “God.”
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh - Merely to leave everything to nature was, after all, but to negate the very idea of education; it was to trust to the accidents of circumstance.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - If we negate the great evils of the nation-state, then of course the nation-state itself is negated.
— from Down with the Cities! by Tadashi Nakashima - If we negate the nation-state, then of course there are no "citizens," and what remains is a group of people known as an ethnic group or race.
— from Down with the Cities! by Tadashi Nakashima
