sublate

[ suhb-leyt ]

verb (used with object)

, sub·lat·ed, sub·lat·ing.

1. to deny or contradict; negate.

Other Words From

• sub·lation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sublate¹

First recorded in 1850–55; from Latin sublat(us), past participle of tollere “to lift, raise up, remove”

Example Sentences

Sublate, sub-lāt′, v.t. to deny—opp. to Posit: to remove.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

The assertion that the cause only is real because it persists, while the non-continuous effects—such as jars and waterpots—are unreal, has also been refuted before, on the ground that the fact of a thing not existing at one place and one time does not sublate its real existence at another time and place.

From Project Gutenberg

Nor is there any valid line of reasoning to sublate that perception.

From Project Gutenberg

But when of a thing that is perceived in connexion with some place and time, the non-existence is perceived in connexion with some other place and time, there arises no contradiction; how then should the one cognition sublate the other? or how can it be said that of a thing absent at one time and place there is absence at other times and places also?

From Project Gutenberg

For in his case the non-cessation of wrong knowledge explains itself from the circumstance that the cause of wrong knowledge, viz. the real defect of the eye which does not admit of being sublated by knowledge, is not removed, although that which would sublate wrong knowledge is near.

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