being here

If you replace the negative prefix of the word 'negation' with the prefix of 'positive', you get 'position', which is surprising. Negation is kind of esoteric and philosophical. Position is very concrete and definite. They're not obviously opposites but they are opposites, since the opposite of negation is 'being' - actually being somewhere - being in a position. We posit ideas. We take a position on issues.