Def Rejecting: is not accepting the negation.
Moderate non-classical logic">

Psychology Dictionary of Arguments

Home Screenshot Tabelle Begriffe

 
Negation, philosophy, logic: negation of a sentence. In logic, this is done by prefixing the negation symbol. Colloquially expressed by the word "not", which can be at different positions in the sentence. If the negation refers only to one sentence part, this must be made clear by the position, e.g. a predicate can be denied without negating the whole sentence. In logic, therefore, inner and outer negation is distinguished by the use of different symbols.
_____________
Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
Author Concept Summary/Quotes Sources

Hartry Field on Negation - Dictionary of Arguments

II 308
Vagueness/indeterminacy/logic/"reject"/Field:
Def Rejecting: is not accepting the negation.
Moderate non-classical logic/Field: should be defined without "reject": it does not accept any instances of the Law of the Excluded Middle, but also does not accept the negation of any instance.
>Excluded middle
, >Negation.
Reject: the sense of rejecting should be less than the meaning of "accepting the negation". - But it must in turn be stronger than "not accept".
>Stronger/Weaker.
Def "reject p": "accept that it is not the case that determined p".
"Low" acceptance should be more than "not high".
If the threshold is >acceptance, then rejecting is stronger than non-accepting.
Assumed, belief degrees in a sentence and its negation add up to less than 1, then: rejecting is weaker than accepting the negation.
>Belief degrees.

_____________
Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Field I
H. Field
Realism, Mathematics and Modality Oxford New York 1989

Field II
H. Field
Truth and the Absence of Fact Oxford New York 2001

Field III
H. Field
Science without numbers Princeton New Jersey 1980

Field IV
Hartry Field
"Realism and Relativism", The Journal of Philosophy, 76 (1982), pp. 553-67
In
Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994


Send Link

Authors A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Z  


Concepts A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Y   Z