negand
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Noun
negand (plural negands)
- (logic) The proposition that is to be negated.
- 2006, Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods, Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century, page 345
- A negation is true if and only if the negand is not true.
- 2012, Nicholas Jeremy Josef Smith, Logic: The Laws of Truth, page 25
- "Maisie is a rottweiler" is the negand of "Maisie is not a rottweiler."
- 2015, Howard Gregory, Language and Logics
- In a negation, the formula being negated is called the negand.
- 2006, Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods, Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century, page 345
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