Passive negation

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With passive negation , the rejection can (as social dimension , meaning , system theory ) of a sense offer (as a communication system or interactive system ) call, wherein the sense offer is not accepted as such ( age and Ego ). Active negation differs from this; the offer of meaning is accepted as such and the negation relates to the preferred side of the communicated distinction (as an object). In everyday language: Are you for or against. I am neither for nor against.

literature

  • Jon Elster: Active and Passive Negation. In: Paul Watzlawick (Ed.): The invented reality. How .... 11th edition. Piper, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-492-20373-6 .
  • Niklas Luhmann: Social Systems. Outline of a general theory . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-518-28266-2 , on the semantics of the article.