Definitionadj. serving or tending to divide or separate
Last update: October 17, 2015
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Sections 3 to 7 of this article attend to the notion of disjunctive and conjunctive predicates. [Please select]
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An account of disjunctive predicates, in this sense, could be useful in identifying Boolean parts of properties. [Please select]
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But even Sigwart's errors are outdone by Lotze, who not only reduces " Every NI is P " so " If S is M, S is P," but proceeds to reduce this hypothetical to the disjunctive, " If S is NI, S is P L or P 2 or 1 33, " and finds fault with the Aristotelian syllogism because it contents itself with inferring " S is P " without showing what P. Now there are occasions when we want to reason in this disjunctive manner, to consider whether S is I n or P 2 or P 3, and to conclude that " S is a particular P "; but ordinarily all we want to know is that " S is P "; e.g. [Please select]
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Finally, the disjunctive judgement contains a relation of two or more propositions to each other--a relation not of consequence, but of logical opposition, in so far as the sphere of the one proposition excludes that of the other. [Please select]
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We must therefore seek for, first, an unconditioned of the categorical synthesis in a subject; secondly, of the hypothetical synthesis of the members of a series; thirdly, of the disjunctive synthesis of parts in a system. [Please select]
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(2) "The statement of fact is that _the relations between things, conjunctive as well as disjunctive, are just as much matters of direct particular experience, neither more so nor less so, than the things themselves_." [Please select]
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That one moment of it proliferates into the next by transitions which, whether conjunctive or disjunctive, continue the experiential tissue, can not, I contend, be denied. [Please select]
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But how can Logic possibly do anything more with these two hypotheses than combine them into the single disjunctive proposition--"Either this Whole System, just as it stands, or Nothing at all." [Please select]
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_See also_ under RELATIONS, and DISJUNCTIVE. [Please select]
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_See also_ under CONJUNCTIVE and DISJUNCTIVE. [Please select]
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In the _Elegy_ the quatrain has not the somewhat disjunctive and isolating effect that it has in some other works where there is continuous argument or narrative that should run on with as few metrical hindrances as possible. [Please select]
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