20788 | The contradictory of a contradictory is an affirmation [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius] |
22017 | Normativity needs the possibility of negation, in affirmation and denial [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
21777 | Negation of negation doubles back into a self-relationship [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
18722 | Negations are not just reversals of truth-value, since that can happen without negation [Wittgenstein on Russell] |
18723 | We may correctly use 'not' without making the rule explicit [Wittgenstein] |
23493 | 'Not' isn't an object, because not-not-p would then differ from p [Wittgenstein] |
23066 | Negation doesn't arise from reasoning, but from deep instincts [Cioran] |
18903 | Sommers promotes the old idea that negation basically refers to terms [Sommers, by Engelbretsen] |
18801 | Classical negation is circular, if it relies on knowing negation-conditions from truth-conditions [Dummett] |
19052 | Natural language 'not' doesn't apply to sentences [Dummett] |
18476 | 'A is F' may not be positive ('is dead'), and 'A is not-F' may not be negative ('is not blind') [MacBride] |
18908 | Standard logic only negates sentences, even via negated general terms or predicates [Engelbretsen] |