 Another way of repulsing the denial equivalence is to argue that denial and rejection are conceptually independent from the concept of negation. Such an independence is defended, for example in van der Sandt and Maier 2003  (Other Internet Resources)  and Priest 2006, Chapter 6. As mentioned in the  supplement, section 3,  according to Priest negation is for the main part a contradictory-forming operator. Nevertheless, Priest believes that there exist “dialetheia”, sentences \(A\) and \(\osim A\) that are both true. In the  dialetheism  entry, Berto, Priest, and Weber explain that