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- noun Plural form of
connective .
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-- _Write twenty compound sentences whose clauses shall be joined by connectives named in the three subdivisions of co-ordinate connectives_.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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A propositional language L is a set of connectives, that is, a set of symbols each one of which has an arity n that tells us in case that n = 0 that the symbol is a propositional constant, and in case that n 0 whether the connective is unary, binary, ternary, etc.
Propositional Consequence Relations and Algebraic Logic Jansana, Ramon 2006
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His connectives were the negation, the weak conjunction, and the weak disjunction of the 3-valued Åukasiewicz system together with a conjunction
Many-Valued Logic Gottwald, Siegfried 2004
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(logic symbols such as connectives, quantifiers, propositional variables etc.) of both logics: L will be defined in a mixed language, which allows combinations of symbols of the underlying languages.
Combining Logics Carnielli, Walter 2007
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There are no dead moments, no fill: even the conjunctions, prepositions and assorted connectives carry a charge.
The before took us right up to the after The Nag 2009
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In shared writing lessons, I stopped modelling connectives and started modelling the writing process.
Guest blog 21 – Beccy on teaching ‘difficult’ primary school pupils… « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010
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"Before the National Gallery, I didn't use many different words, or interesting connectives, but now I know how to make the reader want to read on, to know what happens next."
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In shared writing lessons, I stopped modelling connectives and started modelling the writing process.
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Do you use too many mechanical conjunctions or connectives?
Revising Fiction by David Madden: Leading by Example (and with TOC Checklist) 2009
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Boolean algebra is the algebra of two-valued logic with only sentential connectives, or equivalently of algebras of sets under union and complementation.
The Mathematics of Boolean Algebra Monk, J. Donald 2009
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