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| − | '''[[Nonimplicative negation]]''' (Skt. ''[[prasajyapratiṣedha]]'' or ''[[niṣedha]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མེད་དགག་]]}}; [[Wyl.]] ''[[med dgag]]'') is defined as "[[realizing]] through mere preclusion by eliminating the [[object of negation]] using the [[conceptual mind]]" ({{BigTibetan|[[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]]''). It is a | + | '''[[Nonimplicative negation]]''' (Skt. ''[[prasajyapratiṣedha]]'' or ''[[niṣedha]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མེད་དགག་]]}}; [[Wyl.]] ''[[med dgag]]'') is defined as "[[realizing]] through mere preclusion by eliminating the [[object of negation]] using the [[conceptual mind]]" ({{BigTibetan|[[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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| + | It is a [[negation of existence]], as in the statement "there is no {{Wiki|cat}}", and is contrasted with an [[implicative negation]], as in the statement "that is not a {{Wiki|cat}}" which implies the presence of something other than a {{Wiki|cat}}. | ||
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==Alternative Translations== | ==Alternative Translations== | ||
| − | *[[Absolute]] | + | <poem> |
| − | *External | + | |
| − | * | + | *[[Absolute negation]] |
| − | *Simple | + | *[[External negation]] ([[Samten]] & Garfield) |
| − | *Unqualified | + | *[[Negation of existence]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Simple negation]] |
| + | *[[Unqualified negation]] ([[Lama Chökyi Nyima]]) | ||
| + | *[[Verbally bound negation]] | ||
| + | </poem> | ||
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[[Category:Pramāṇa]] | [[Category:Pramāṇa]] | ||
[[Category:Philosophical Tenets]] | [[Category:Philosophical Tenets]] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:15, 23 March 2015
Nonimplicative negation (Skt. prasajyapratiṣedha or niṣedha; Tib. མེད་དགག་; Wyl. med dgag) is defined as "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).
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.
Alternative Translations
