Determinables and Determinates The terminology of "determinables and determinates" existed in scholastic philosophy, but the modern use of these terms originated with the Cambridge (U.K.) philosopher and logician W. E. Johnson, who...

Determinables and Determinates [addendum] The relation between determinates and determinables has certain interesting formal and modal features. It is controversial whether these features are to be explained in terms of something more basic or whether...

. A distinction is sometimes made between external and internal negation. In external negation a whole proposition is negated, in internal negation only part of one. ‘It’s not thought that he’ll come’ involves external negation...

// n. The presence of a negative (sense 1 or 2) in a sentence or constituent, or the addition of such an element, or the effect of that element when present. See Horn (1989); Payne...

In logic and mathematics, negation or not is an operation on logical values, for example, the logical value of a proposition, that sends true to false and false to true. Intuitively, the negation of a proposition holds exactly when that proposition does...

Two theoretical orders have governed thought about negation. In the first, negation is construed as an activity of the mind in its capacity for "pure" thought or language. In the second order, negation is taken as grounded in experience and, so, as prior to,...

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Italy's left is seeking to "eradicate" the traditional family with its plan for a law that would give unmarried couples, including gays, some of the same rights as married couples, the Vatican newspaper said Saturday.The Senate majority this week called unanimously on the government to...