logical negation

operation that takes a proposition p to another proposition "not p", written ¬p, which is interpreted intuitively as being true when p is false, and false when p is true; unary (single-argument) logical connective
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logical negation

Summary

logical negation is a logical operator[1]. It draws 384 Wikipedia views per month (logical_operator category, ranking #1 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • logical negation's image is recorded as Venn10.svg[3].
  • logical negation's instance of is recorded as logical operator[4].
  • logical negation's instance of is recorded as unary operation[5].
  • logical negation's instance of is recorded as involution[6].
  • logical negation's instance of is recorded as self-mapping[7].
  • logical negation's instance of is recorded as logical operation[8].
  • logical negation's GND ID is recorded as 4137553-1[9].
  • logical negation's subclass of is recorded as negation[10].
  • logical negation's Commons category is recorded as Negation[11].
  • logical negation's Unicode character is recorded as ¬[12].
  • logical negation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0159s4[13].
  • logical negation's notation is recorded as ¬[14].
  • logical negation's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • logical negation's described by source is recorded as ISO 80000-2:2019 Quantities and units — Part 2: Mathematics[16].
  • logical negation's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[17].
  • logical negation's described by source is recorded as Taylor & Francis Online[18].
  • logical negation's described by source is recorded as MDN Web Docs[19].
  • logical negation's partially coincident with is recorded as other[20].
  • logical negation's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/negation-grammar[21].
  • logical negation's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/negation-logic[22].
  • logical negation's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/not-operator[23].
  • logical negation's has characteristic is recorded as change[24].
  • logical negation's different from is recorded as opposite number[25].
  • logical negation's TeX string is recorded as \lnot[26].
  • logical negation's TeX string is recorded as \neg[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for logical negation include atelestite[28], a mineral species[29].

Why It Matters

logical negation draws 384 Wikipedia views per month (logical_operator category, ranking #1 of 7).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for it include atelestite[28], a mineral species[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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