Definition by negation is a solution to a right angle statement.
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No, the inverse is not the negation of the converse. Actually, that is contrapositive you are referring to. The inverse is the negation of the conditional statement. For instance:P → Q~P → ~Q where ~ is the negation symbol of the sentence symbols.
Negation is a logical connective. In philosophy, it means that it takes truth to a falsehood, and falsehood to a truth.
You can think of the minus sign as the negation operator in symbolic logic. Take a positive number, for example 5. Negate it one to get -5, then, following the rule from logic that a double negation is the equivalent to doing nothing at all, --5=5. The same goes for any number x.
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