# non (negation)

not a thing that has a certain quality or condition

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: language  ·  Arena: lexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [difference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-difference.relation), [off](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-off.state), [condition](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-condition.state), [quality](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quality.value), [certain](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-certain.confidence)

**Through:** the relation of being different combined with the absence of presence and reliance on definite knowledge of qualities and conditions produces a sense of negation

**Novel properties:**
- exclusion of specific attributes
- assertion through absence
- dependence on established truth

## Examples
- The 2021 KLM Flight 1234 aborted takeoff at Schiphol when sensors registered engine temperature above 900°C, triggering automatic shutdown. *(engineering)*
- In 2019, the Amazon Web Services us-east-1 outage persisted because routing tables failed to update with active server statuses. *(computing)*
- The 2008 financial crisis intensified when credit rating agencies assigned AAA to mortgage-backed securities that lacked underlying borrower income. *(economics)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-non.negation.json*  
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