{"id":100,"date":"2011-02-04T16:52:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T21:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx502s11\/?p=100"},"modified":"2023-04-29T21:25:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:25:42","slug":"definition-of-denial-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/2011\/02\/04\/definition-of-denial-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition of &#8216;denial&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of you asked if I could re-state the definition of denial, since it is relevant to Part I of your current homework assignment. \u00c2\u00a0Here it is:<\/p>\n<p>Sentence <em>A<\/em> is the <strong>denial <\/strong>of sentence <em>B<\/em>: it is impossible for <em>A<\/em> and <em>B<\/em> to both be true, and it is also impossible for <em>A<\/em> and <em>B<\/em> to both be false. \u00c2\u00a0(In other words, <em>A<\/em> and <em>B<\/em> have the opposite truth conditions.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of you asked if I could re-state the definition of denial, since it is relevant to Part I of your current homework assignment. \u00c2\u00a0Here it is: Sentence A is the denial of sentence B: it is impossible for A and B to both be true, and it is also impossible for A and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/2011\/02\/04\/definition-of-denial-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Definition of &#8216;denial&#8217;&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}