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- noun The quality of being
disjunctive .
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Examples
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The disjunctiveness of the book -- McEwan doesn't necessarily follow up any particular train of thought in subsequent sections -- only serves to alienate us, in a Brechtian sense, from the breathtaking sources of denial at our disposal.
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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The disjunctiveness of the book -- McEwan doesn't necessarily follow up any particular train of thought in subsequent sections -- only serves to alienate us, in a Brechtian sense, from the breathtaking sources of denial at our disposal.
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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The disjunctiveness of the book -- McEwan doesn't necessarily follow up any particular train of thought in subsequent sections -- only serves to alienate us, in a Brechtian sense, from the breathtaking sources of denial at our disposal.
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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An appeal to the existence or non-existence of such parts to explain disjunctiveness, on the other hand, appears to assume what it purports to establish.
Determinates vs. Determinables Sanford, David H. 2006
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