Is 'no' a force-indicator? No!

Abstract

The rejective view of negation, Rejectivism for short, holds that the meaning of the sentence-operator ‘It is not the case that’ is to be explained on the basis of a prior understanding of the activity of rejecting.1 The speech-act of rejection or denial (dissent) is taken to be the opposite of assertion; rejecting that p is distinct from and more basic than asserting that it is not the case that p. For example, a Rejectivist account of the meaning of ‘It is not the case that’ would be given along the following lines: ‘It is not the case that A’ is correctly assertible iff ‘A’ is correctly deniable. ‘It is not the case that A’ is correctly deniable iff ‘A’ is correctly assertible.

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