disjunction

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A popular way to account for such a disjunction is to highlight Aurobindo's one-year stint in the prison (particularly the time spent in solitary confinement) and the dramatic trial between May 1908 - May 1909 and mark that experience as the transformative catalyst to the spiritual turn.

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  1. noun The act of disjoining or the condition of being disjointed.
  2. noun Logic A proposition that presents two or more alternative terms, with the assertion that only one is true.
  3. noun Logic A proposition that presents two or more alternative terms, with the assertion that at least one is true.
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  • Maybe it was that disjunction, or the deepening of the spring evening into night outside, that made me even more nervous. —  The Historian
  • A truth function defines the truth value of a proposition composed by connectives (conjunction, disjunction, negation) in terms of the truth values of its components. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • A popular way to account for such a disjunction is to highlight Aurobindo's one-year stint in the prison (particularly the time spent in solitary confinement) and the dramatic trial between May 1908 - May 1909 and mark that experience as the transformative catalyst to the spiritual turn. —  Kafila
  • Part of that apparent disjunction is endemic to the writing endeavor. —  WORLD Magazine | Community
  • He proposed "disjunction" a concept that was currently acquiring vitality in romantic literature: the heart versus the head, emotion versus intellect. —  Hawaii Reporter
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  1. = Old French disjoinction, desjoinccion, F. disjonction = Spanish disyuncion = Portuguese disjuncção = Italian disgiunzione, from L. disjunction(n-) or dijunctio(n-), separation, from disjungere, past participle disjunctus, disjoin: see disjoin, disjunct.
 

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