Negation, as maintained by the likes of Merriam Webster refers to
“the action or logical operation of negating or making negative”.
In simpler terms, negation defines the polar opposition of affirmative, denies the existence or vaguely – a refutation. This is also known as “Not”. Classical logic resembles negation with truth function which takes truth to falsity and is perfectly capable of running the opposite operation. It denies the truth of a sentence. It’s just the conversion of the affirmative sentence which converts the simple affirmative sentence into negative.
Example
- I like to sing = I do not like to sing.
Examples of Negation:
- Rick is not here.
- Peter has no books.
- Sam has never been there.
- John did nothing for this project.
- Neither I nor you attended the program.
- None of us liked the movie.
- Pam has rarely cooked any food.
- Richard is buying unnecessary things.
- Rock is not sure about it.
- Patrick has no knowledge about it.
- I have nothing to say.
- Why are you so careless?
- Nobody was in the classroom.
- I found the book
- Alice rarely sings a song.
- Bob roughly has any idea about it.
- Jim is not
- Harry is not
- Nobody liked the picture.
- Neither Jack nor Robin was in the party.