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'''Nonimplicative negation''' (Skt. ''prasajyapratiṣedha'' or ''niṣedha''; Tib. [[མེད་དགག་]] | '''Nonimplicative negation''' (Skt. ''prasajyapratiṣedha'' or ''niṣedha''; Tib. [[མེད་དགག་]], ''megak'', [[Wyl.]] ''med dgag'') is a negation of existence, as in the statement "there is no cat", and is contrasted with an [[implicative negation]], as in the statement "that is not a cat" which implies the presence of something other than a cat. | ||
Its definition is: "realizing through mere preclusion by eliminating the object of negation using the conceptual mind" (རྟོག་བློས་དགག་བྱ་སྒྲུབ་པ་རྣམ་པར་བཅད་ནས་རྣམ་བཅད་ཙམ་དུ་རྟོགས་པར་བྱ་བ་, ''rtog blos dgag bya sgrub pa rnam par bcad nas rnam bcad tsam du rtogs par bya ba''). | Its definition is: "realizing through mere preclusion by eliminating the object of negation using the conceptual mind" (རྟོག་བློས་དགག་བྱ་སྒྲུབ་པ་རྣམ་པར་བཅད་ནས་རྣམ་བཅད་ཙམ་དུ་རྟོགས་པར་བྱ་བ་, ''rtog blos dgag bya sgrub pa rnam par bcad nas rnam bcad tsam du rtogs par bya ba''). | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:12, 6 February 2022
Nonimplicative negation (Skt. prasajyapratiṣedha or niṣedha; Tib. མེད་དགག་, megak, Wyl. med dgag) is a negation of existence, as in the statement "there is no cat", and is contrasted with an implicative negation, as in the statement "that is not a cat" which implies the presence of something other than a cat.
Its definition is: "realizing through mere preclusion by eliminating the object of negation using the conceptual mind" (རྟོག་བློས་དགག་བྱ་སྒྲུབ་པ་རྣམ་པར་བཅད་ནས་རྣམ་བཅད་ཙམ་དུ་རྟོགས་པར་བྱ་བ་, rtog blos dgag bya sgrub pa rnam par bcad nas rnam bcad tsam du rtogs par bya ba).
Alternative Translations
- Absolute negation
- External negation (Samten & Garfield)
- Negation of existence
- Simple negation
- Unqualified negation (LCN)
- Verbally bound negation
- Nonaffirming negative (Padmakara)