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Negation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the act of rejecting our conditions; it is in this act that possibilities, and thus, freedom presents itself.

The Negation (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠up the entire social reality of some men: janitors, overseers and jailers will live and die as nothing but a Not on earth.

Negation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a refusal of existence — an abrupt break in continuity that tears us away from the wall of positivity encircling us; no "category" plugged onto judgments could do that.

Negation (n.) requires ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠imagination: what is denied cannot be real, for that would affirm it, nor a mere nothing, for something is denied — so it must be imagined.

Negation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a contradiction in adjecto when it is absolute: without God or a class to deny from, it denies everything in the name of nothing and signifies nothing.