noun🔗Share否定The act of negating something."The lawyer presented several negations of the witness's original statement, pointing out inconsistencies to weaken their credibility. "弁護士は、証人の最初の供述に対するいくつかの否定を提示し、矛盾点を指摘して信用性を弱めた。grammarlanguagelinguisticslogicphilosophyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share否定、否認A denial or contradiction."His frequent negations of his teacher's instructions made it hard for him to succeed in class. "彼は教師の指示を頻繁に否定したため、授業で成功することが難しくなった。grammarlinguisticslogicstatementnegativeChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share否定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".)"In logic class, we practiced forming negations of simple statements, like changing "The cat is black" to "The cat is not black." "論理学の授業では、「猫は黒い」を「猫は黒くない」のように、単純な命題の否定形を作る練習をしました。grammarlanguagelogiclinguisticsphilosophywordstatementChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share否定The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions."The student struggled with the logic puzzle because it relied heavily on understanding the negations of each statement. "学生は、各ステートメントの否定を理解することに大きく依存していたため、論理パズルに苦労しました。logicmathphilosophylanguagegrammarChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading