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'''Nonimplicative negation''' (Tib. [[མེད་དགག་]]; [[Wyl.]] ''med dgag'') is defined as "realizing through mere preclusion by eliminating the object of negation using the conceptual mind" (''rtog blos dgag bya sgrub pa rnam par bcad nas rnam bcad tsam du rtogs par bya ba''). It 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.  
'''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==
==Alternative Translations==
*Absolute negation
*Absolute negation
*External negation (Samten & Garfield)
*Negation of existence
*Negation of existence
*Simple negation  
*Simple negation  
*Unqualified negation ([[LCN]])
*Verbally bound negation
*Nonaffirming negative (Padmakara)




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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)