Overnegation
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Excessive negation. uncountable
"Firmly based in meditative practice and reacting to a perceived overnegation tending toward the nihilistic in Madhyamaka teachings, Yōgacāra doctrines are concerned with the non duality ^([sic]) of subject and object, which for them are impositions upon the non-dual flow of perceptions, sometimes termed Mind."
Example
More examples"Firmly based in meditative practice and reacting to a perceived overnegation tending toward the nihilistic in Madhyamaka teachings, Yōgacāra doctrines are concerned with the non duality ^([sic]) of subject and object, which for them are impositions upon the non-dual flow of perceptions, sometimes termed Mind."
Etymology
From over- + negation.
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