Negated concepts have different causes and effects than their positive poles.

Evidence

Concept asymmetry naturally leads to causal asymmetry. If the opposite is not identical to the mirror image of the positive pole then it might well have different causes and effects. Conversely, if the causes of the positive pole are different from its opposite, that strongly implies conceptual asymmetry. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 463

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘Why Explaining Democracy and Explaining Autocracy Are Different Sciences’ — the methodological cost of treating social-science opposites as mirror images.
• DEEPTHINKING: Reframes how entire literatures should be organized: two separate causal accounts per concept pair rather than one symmetrized model.