Disaffirmation: alternatives and connections

The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial.

give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument); "The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution"

any set of axioms from which some or all axioms can be used in conjunction to logically derive theorems.; "An axiomatic system is said…

The act or process of confuting; refutation.

the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he sai…

the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he sai…

An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.

The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.

A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.

That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.

used to express negation; "the nays have it"

The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation;…

Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing as…

Expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative.

Nay; not; not at all; not in any respect or degree; -- a word expressing negation, denial, or refusal. Before or after another negativ…

Nonexistence; the negation of being.

Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity.

A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal.