The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing
by Eva Brann
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages272 pages
ISBN
9780742512283
Published
2001
Description
No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negate...No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will-sometimes just that and nothing more.