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Meanings of disjunctive in English

Serving or tending to divide or separate.

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Usage of disjunctive in English
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And linked to the tragedy of the disjunctive was this other tragedy.
The Justice of the King
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And these very surprising and disjunctive uses of Wagner in modern context.
The new yorker
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There is no limit to the number of members in the disjunctive major.
Deductive Logic
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The very cement seems disjunctive; I mean the Duke of Devonshire, who takes the treasury.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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One of the key visual aspects of the film is the disjunctive contrast of scale.
The new yorker
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The disjunctive proposition may also appear in the form
Deductive Logic
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As applied to disjunctive propositions conversion by contraposition consists simply in transposing the two alternatives.
Deductive Logic
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When applied to disjunctive propositions, the distinctive features of conversion by negation are still discernible.
Deductive Logic
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Thus there are four types of disjunctive syllogism possible.
Deductive Logic
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But-surely disjunctive conjunctions are the tragedies of the language!
The Justice of the King
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We have seen that in the disjunctive syllogism the two constructive moods alone are formally valid.
Deductive Logic
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The disjunctive proposition may be permuted as it stands without being reduced to the conjunctive form.
Deductive Logic
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In confocal laser microscopy images a disjunctive pattern of fluorescing spots appear about 10 microm apart.
Pubmed
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And these conclusions are valid, because in a disjunctive proposition only one alternative can be true.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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The disjunctive is merely a peculiar way of stating a conjunctive proposition with a negative antecedent.
Deductive Logic
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For each antecedent has now a disjunctive choice of consequents, instead of being limited to one.
Deductive Logic
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