1) affirming negation, deductive reasoning [negation]. 2) "the denial that, even if a certain something can be said to exist, it has any given property or nature." This is the second of Nagarjuna's two famous denials, dealt with in the opening stanza of his Madhyamkarika; see also {med dgag, khong khro ma dmigs pa} do not experience aggression, {gzod nas ma dmigs shing} it is primordially nonexistent; provisional/ qualified negation; affirming negative, affirmative negation, "rejected as not being such and such". comp. {med dgag}. absolute negation
affirming negation, affirming negative
implicative negation; nominally bound negation [ggd]
affirming negative; affirming negation; nominally bound negation {GD:371}; exclusion {GD:371} Illustration: mountainless plain (ri med pa'i thang) English for Divisions?? {T} too many to fit {PH}Comment: The division of negatives, or negations, into affirming and non-affirming, or implicative and non-implicative, is traced to Mimāṃsā injunctions to refrain from activities that either imply another activity in its place or not. For example, a ""mountainless plain"" is an affirming negative that explicitly suggests or indicates a positive phenomenon (a plain) in place of its object of negation (mountains). Another type of affirming negative is one that by context suggests a positive phenomenon in place of its object of negation; for instance, being told that Shākyamuni was either a brahmin or kṣatriya (member of the royal or warrior class) and was not a brahmin suggests, by context, that he was of the royal caste. A positive phenomenon — being a kṣatriya — is suggested in place of the object of negation — being a brahmin — in this context. See also ""non-affirming negation"" (med dgag).