English-Finnish translations for negation

• negaatio

Definition of negation

• The act of negating something
• 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
• The logical operation which obtains such propositions

Related words

• abnegation
• self-abnegation
• negationism
• denegation