Logical negation

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Logical negation is an operation on one logical value, typically the value of a proposition, that produces a value of true when its operand is false and a value of false when its operand is true.

The truth table of NOTp, also written ¬p, appears below:


Logical Negation
p ¬p
F T
T F


The negation of a proposition p may be found notated in various ways in various contexts of application, often merely for typographical convenience. Among these variants are the following:


Variant Notations
Notation Vocalization
p¯ p bar
p~ p tilde
p p prime
p complement
!p bang p


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