The difference between Logical connective and Negation

When used as nouns, logical connective means a truth-valued function such as (the usual suspects): conjunction, disjunction, negation, and material implication, whereas negation means the act of negating something.

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  1. Logical connective as a noun (logic):

    A truth-valued function such as (the usual suspects): conjunction, disjunction, negation, and material implication.

  1. Negation as a noun (uncountable):

    The act of negating something.

  2. Negation as a noun (countable):

    A denial or contradiction.

  3. Negation as a noun (logic, countable):

    A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)

  4. Negation as a noun (logic):

    The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.

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