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- noun Plural form of
disjunctive .
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Examples
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I took a couple classes in formal logic, although I remember it being about disjunctives and syllogisms and all that as opposed to fallacies.
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I took a couple classes in formal logic, although I remember it being about disjunctives and syllogisms and all that as opposed to fallacies.
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He answered but by disjunctives, therefore can it not be true which he saith; for the verity of such-like propositions is inherent only in one of its two members.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Our trusty friend, stir not, nor imburse any; but let us vary the chance, and speak without disjunctives.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He answered but by disjunctives, therefore can it not be true which he saith; for the verity of such-like propositions is inherent only in one of its two members.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Our trusty friend, stir not, nor imburse any; but let us vary the chance, and speak without disjunctives.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But I am interested in how the conjunctives or disjunctives, the and's and the or's, placed between words like crazy, stupid, smart, sane, vary with time and the vestments of power - as with
Editorial 2001
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But I am interested in how the conjunctives or disjunctives, the and's and the or's, placed between words like crazy, stupid, smart, sane, vary with time and the vestments of power - as with Kate the crazy slave and Sally Hemings, 'the attractive helpmeet', as one columnist praised her.
Background Documents 2000
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He does not appear to regard these pairs of disjunctives as coextensive with anything.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT McRAE 1968
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The former belong to pure categoricals, to latter to hypotheticals [Query _disjunctives_].
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