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negations

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  1. The act of negating something.
  2. A denial or contradiction.
  3. A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
  4. The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.

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