A proposition that is true if and only if another one is false; a proposition resulting from the application to another proposition of the logical operation "not"
specifying that a query is to select all tuples except those which have a particular value for a given attribute Such queries are often unsafe, and many databases do not support negation
Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has
In general terms this means to disprove but Adorno uses it more in meaning the denial of the artist by the culture industry By repressing the artist, the culture industry negates them from producing their own product This makes the artists into a slave, resulting in negative finished products The negation of art and culture is also apparent in the stress of business, which overlooks the important goals of the artist and determines their destiny within the industry The truth of their lives is negative for they are unable to choose their path; they are paralysed by the bourgeois negativity
In propositional logic, a proposition which denies the truth of its component proposition Example: "Today is not Friday" is the negation of "today is Friday"
The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; the opposite of affirmation
(logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false the speech act of negating a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
The negation of something is its complete opposite or something which destroys it or makes it lose its effect. Unintelligible legislation is the negation of the rule of law and of parliamentary democracy