Do the horse-cars jingling outside negate me writing in this room?
It never tries to expand; and so there is no chance for anything to exclude or negate it.
Our starting-point cannot be the "a priori synthetic unity of apperception," because this is an abstraction of the pure reason, and if accepted as a real fact would contradict and negate all the other attributes of the soul.
But it can never negate itself into quite the thin simulacrum of reality into which pure reason divorced from poetic imagery is capable of fading.
It detects in this doctrine, as I have hinted, an attempt of the conscience to arrogate to itself the whole field of experience and to negate all the other attributes, especially emotion and the aesthetic sense.
Literacy, in search of arguments for its own survival, frequently embraces causes stemming from experiences that negate it.
Such communication protocols negate the centrality and sequentiality of literacy and treat all that is information in the same way: images, sounds, movements.
Does the pragmatic perspective negateexplanations originating from other, relatively limited, perspectives?
We have electron deflecting suits that negate the effects of the anionizers.
He chose his words carefully, saying, "More pain will not negate the pain already in existence, yet war is not always avoidable, and sometimes it is even necessary.
More pain will not negate the pain that has already been felt, it will only result in more suffering than we have known up to this time.
In the human knowing place discovered differences in similar realities do not compete, one does not negate the other.
This was not a seeking for conformity nor an attempt to negate individuality.
The definition that fails to yield it must exclude or negate it.
The only way of making your affirmation about A self-securing is by getting it into a form which will by implication negate all possible negations in advance.
Instead of being interpreters of reality, concepts negate the inwardness of reality altogether.
If the characters do not negate the moral idea, what does it matter that the piece affirms it?
Why, then, in art negate an act upon which is founded even our view of nature?
One part of them negate property for our future; these teachings may be characterized as indoministic.
The indoministic teachings part company again as to what they affirm for our future (in the same different senses in which they negate property for our future) in contrast to property.
A part of them negate law for our future; these teachings may be called anomistic.
So far as the doctrines of jurisprudential criticism negate the State, they reject it for our future in consideration of the particular circumstances that at present prevail in our case.
So far as the doctrines of jurisprudential skepticism negate the State, they foresee, looking to the course evolution is taking, that in our future the State will disappear.
As to what they affirm for our future in contrast to the State (in the same different senses in which they negate the State for our future) the seven teachings here presented have nothing in common.
In their relation to the State they have only this one thing in common, that they negate the State for our future--and in very different senses at that.
The Anarchistic teachings have in common only this, that they negate the State for our future.
The anomistic teachings part company again in regard to what they (in the same different senses in which they negate law for our future) affirm for our future in contrast to the law.
They have this in common, that theynegate the State for our future.
So far as the doctrines of jurisprudential dogmatism negate the State, they reject it unconditionally, and so for our future as well as elsewhere, without any regard to its effects under this or that particular set of circumstances.
If I say I am for myself, I not only am, but I negate in me all else, exclude it from me, in so far as it seems to me to be external.
Each thing is simple as beginning; it is other or manifold as middle, and its end is the return of its other nature into unity or mind; if we take this triplicity from a thing, we negate it and make of it an abstract construction of thought.
This vacuum, the negative in relation to the affirmative, is also the principle of the movement of atoms; they are so to speak solicited by the vacuum to fill up and to negate it.
If we negate the nation-state, then of course there are no "citizens," and what remains is a group of people known as an ethnic group or race.
If we negate the great evils of the nation-state, then of course the nation-state itself is negated.
Does 'PPp' negate Pp, or does it affirm p--or both?
But in 'Pp' it is not 'P' that negates, it is rather what is common to all the signs of this notation that negate p.
The various judgments which constitute a disjunction do not, when viewed as parts of the disjunction, merely negate one another; they mutually presuppose one another in the total complex.
Limitation is not merely negative; genuine realities may negate one another.
Financial cost relates to ecological cost, so spending money on short-lived plastic or easily rusted metal may negate any environmental benefit gained from recycling yard wastes.
There are other less obvious tumbler disadvantages that may negate any work avoided, time saved, or sweaty turning with a manure fork eliminated.
I must not onlynegate but I must also restore the negation again.
What have I done except to negate x and y; not as in metaphysics so as not to trouble myself any further about them, but in a manner demanded by the problem?
To negate in the dialectic is not simply to say "No," or to describe a thing as non-existent, or to destroy it after any fashion that you may choose.
I treat dx and dy as real quantities, as quantities subject to certain exceptional laws, and at a certain point I negate the negation, that is, I integrate the differential formula.
The next step, to negate it in turn, to transform it into social property, necessarily follows.
But indeed all the genuine plays alike ignore or tacitly negate the idea of immortality; even the conventional religious phrases of Macbeth being but incidental poetry.
Therefore if the universe be really dual, its two principles must negate and contradict each other.
Even self-contradictions, it may be argued, do not negate the authenticity of a teaching.
This again, it may be argued, proves that false traditions do not negate the historicity of the personage they concern.
It is to guard against and to negate such accidental disclosures that our Watchmen have been trained.
Were they to know of us now, it is practically certain that they would be able to develop powers and mechanisms by the use of which they would negate our every effort--they would hurl us out of this, our native space and time.
We couldnegate the efforts of any echelon below the Eddorians themselves, it is true.
Therefore neither in God nor outside God is there any cause or reason which can negate His existence, and therefore God necessarily exists.
There exists, therefore, nothing in Nature contrary to this intellectual love, or which can negate it.
This proposition is self-evident, for the definition of any given thing affirms and does not deny the existence of the thing; that is to say, it posits the essence of the thing and does not negate it.
But substance possessing another nature could have nothing in common with God, and therefore could not give Him existence nor negate it.
For even to allow a shadow of finiteness in the Absolute is to negate it; to define it is to annihilate it!
As knowledge grows, interpretations become more adequate to the objective facts, but it does not negate them.
For while fate showered you magnificently with gifts, it seems to have at the same time sought to negateits liberality by fusing in your personality the base alloy, by decreeing that you should have enormous powers and yet abuse them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "negate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
