The negation of a statement is a statement that has the opposite meaning as the original statement. The negation of the statement $p$ can be written as not $p$ or using the symbol $\neg .$ Consider an example statement and its negation. A negation always has the opposite truth value than the original statement. This can be expressed using a truth table.

Negation
$p$	$\neg p$
T	F
F	T