Denial Assertion
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A Denial Assertion is an assertion that an allegation is not true.
- Example(s):
- “I am not a crook.”.
- “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”.
- “I’ve said it for longer than seven years. I have never doped.”
- “Cigarette smoking is no more ‘addictive’ than coffee, tea or Twinkies.”
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Acceptance Assertion (of acceptance).
- See: State of Denial, Abnegation, Denialism, Evidence, Blaming, Defense Mechanism, Psychoanalysis, True-Believer Syndrome, Rationalization (Making Excuses), Psychological Projection.
References
2018
- (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial Retrieved:2018-8-3.
- Denial, in ordinary English usage, is asserting that a statement or allegation is not true. The same word, and also abnegation is used for a psychological defense mechanism postulated by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. [1] An individual that exhibits such behavior is described as a denialist [2] or true believer. Denial also could mean denying the happening of an event or the reliability of information, which can lead to a feeling of aloofness and to the ignoring of possibly beneficial information.
The subject may use:
- simple denial: deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether
- minimisation: admit the fact but deny its seriousness (a combination of denial and rationalization)
- projection: admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility by blaming somebody or something else
- Denial, in ordinary English usage, is asserting that a statement or allegation is not true. The same word, and also abnegation is used for a psychological defense mechanism postulated by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. [1] An individual that exhibits such behavior is described as a denialist [2] or true believer. Denial also could mean denying the happening of an event or the reliability of information, which can lead to a feeling of aloofness and to the ignoring of possibly beneficial information.
- ↑ Freud, Sigmund (1925). "Die Verneinung".
- ↑ 2005, The Cape Times 2005-03-11