Dialogue

 1 Intro|        practical life.~But the negative as well as the positive
 2 Intro|    theory of the nature of the negative.~The theory is, that Not-being
 3 Intro|     sense of Not-being, as the negative of Being; although he again
 4 Intro|       there is a corresponding negative idea—‘not-just,’ ‘not-beautiful,’
 5 Intro|    whether this account of the negative is really the true one.
 6 Intro|       class of the infinite or negative. The conception of Plato,
 7 Intro|         The reason is that the negative proposition has really passed
 8 Intro| between his explanation of the negative and the principle of contradiction.
 9 Intro|     the Platonic notion of the negative as the principle of difference,
10 Intro|         The explanation of the negative given by Plato in the Sophist
11 Intro|      to the beautiful. And the negative may be a negation of fact
12 Intro|        abstract,’ in which the negative cannot be separated from
13 Intro|     belongs, there are endless negative classes to which he may
14 Intro|        To refer a subject to a negative class is unmeaning, unless
15 Intro|        different senses of the negative, and he confuses the different
16 Intro|     like Zeno, employing their negative dialectic in the refutation
17 Intro|        he is aware that in the negative there is also a positive
18 Intro|     told to observe that every negative is a positive, that differences
19 Intro|       But the positive had its negative, the conception of Being
20 Intro|         All A = A,’ or, in the negative form, ‘Nothing can at the
21  Soph|   Certainly not.~STRANGER: The negative particles, ou and me, when