denegative
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editAdjective
editdenegative (comparative more denegative, superlative most denegative)
- Of or pertaining to negation. Having the effect or quality of denying or negating.
- Derrida draws attention to the denegative logic required to speak of what is most important by not speaking of it, by avoiding speaking of it; a logic he finds at work in apophatic texts from Plato's Timaeus to Eckhart's sermons to Dionysius' hierarchies to Heidegger's late unpublished lectures