Truth and The Ambiguity of Negation

In Erich Rast & Luiz Carlos Baptista, Meaning and Context. Peter Lang. pp. 2--235 (2010)
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This article has one aim, to reject the claim that negation is semantically ambiguous. The first section presents the putative incompatibility between truth-value gaps and the truth-schema; the second section presents the motivation for the ambiguity thesis; the third section summarizes arguments against the claim that natural language negation is semantically ambiguous; and the fourth section indicates the problems of an introduction of two distinct negation operators in natural language.

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