Negation
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- "In matters of taste, more than anywhere else, all determination is negation, and tastes are perhaps first and foremost distastes, disgust provoked by horror or visceral intolerance of the tastes of others … Aesthetic intolerance can be terribly violent. Aversion to different lifestyles is perhaps one of the strongest barriers between the classes…" (Pierre Bourdieu 1984: 56)
- the act of negating something
- a denial or contradiction
- a proposition that is true if and only if another one is false; a proposition resulting from the application to another proposition of the logical operation "not"
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