Nugation vs Negation - What's the difference?
nugation | negation |
(rare, obsolete) The act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential.)
* 1826 , Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon , p13
(uncountable) The act of negating something.
(countable) A denial or contradiction.
* (Thomas Hardy)
(logic, countable) 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".)
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(logic) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
* {{quote-web
, date = 2011-07-20
, author = Edwin Mares
, title = Propositional Functions
, site = The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
, url = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/propositional-function
, accessdate = 2012-07-15
}}
As nouns the difference between nugation and negation
is that nugation is the act or practice of trifling (focusing on the trivial or inconsequential. while negation is the act of negating something.nugation
English
Noun
(en noun)- As for the received opinion, that putrefaction is caused, either by cold, or peregrine and preternatural heat, it is but nugation : for cold in things inanimate, is the greatest enemy that is to putrefaction ...
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*negation
English
Noun
- But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.
- Although some of the logicians working in term logic have very complicated treatments of negation, we can see the origin of the modern conception in the extensional tradition as well. In Boole and most of his followers, the negation of a term is understood as the set theoretic complement of the class represented by that term. For this reason, the negation of classical propositional logic is often called ‘Boolean negation’.