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A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are used in the same sentence. This is typically used to convey a different shade of meaning from a strictly positive sentence ("You're not unattractive" vs "You're attractive").
In propositional logic, the double negation of a statement states that "it is not the case that the statement is not true". In classical logic, every statement is logically equivalent to its double negation, but this is not true in intuitionistic logic; this can be expressed by the formula A ≡ ~(~A) where the sign ≡ expresses logical equivalence and the sign ~ expresses negation.
But the term "double negative" can sometimes refer to the standard English constructions called litotes or nested negatives, e.g., using "He is not unhealthy" to mean "He is healthy". In some cases, nested negation is used to convey nuance, uncertainty, or the possibility of a third option other than a statement or its negation.
Negative numbers: Real numbers that are less than zero. Because zero itself has no sign, neither the positive numbers nor the negative numbers include zero. When zero is a possibility, the following terms are often used: Non-negative numbers: Real numbers that are greater than or equal to zero. Thus a non-negative number is either zero or positive.
A negative answer, commonly expressed with the word no A type of grammatical construction; see affirmative and negative A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are used in the same sentence.
Let T N consist of the double-negation translations of the formulas in T. The fundamental soundness theorem (Avigad and Feferman 1998, p. 342; Buss 1998 p. 66) states: If T is a set of axioms and φ is a formula, then T proves φ using classical logic if and only if T N proves φ N using intuitionistic logic.
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Some authors use for non-zero integers, while others use it for non-negative integers, or for {–1,1} (the group of units of ). Additionally, Z p {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{p}} is used to denote either the set of integers modulo p (i.e., the set of congruence classes of integers), or the set of p -adic integers .