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Definition of Disjunctive
1. Adjective. Serving or tending to divide or separate.
Antonyms: Conjunctive
Derivative terms: Disjoin, Disjoin
Definition of Disjunctive
1. a. Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
2. n. A disjunctive conjunction.
Definition of Disjunctive
1. Adjective. Not connected. Separated ¹
2. Adjective. Of a personal pronoun, not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, examples: ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disjunctive
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Disjunctive
1. 1. Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining. 2. Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords. "Disjunctive notes." Disjunctive conjunction, one in which the major proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a circle or an ellipse; but in does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipse. Origin: L. Disjunctivus: cf. F. Disjonctif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disjunctive
Literary usage of Disjunctive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"CHAPTER XI HYPOTHETICAL AND disjunctive ARGUMENTS § 40. The Hypothetical Syllogism.
— We have hitherto been dealing with syllogisms composed entirely of ..."
2. Time and Space: A Metaphysical Essay by Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1865)
"For instance, Whales are neither mollusc, articulate, nor radiate, is a negative
disjunctive proposition, which expresses alike the non-coalescence of the ..."
3. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"general formula of the disjunctive syllogism, it is only a special instance of the
... All that the disjunctive judgment tells us is, in the first place, ..."
4. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"THE disjunctive SYLLOGISM. A disjunctive syllogism is one whose major premise is a
... A disjunctive proposition or judgment has already been defined, ..."
5. The Problem of Logic by William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein (1908)
"It should be noticed that the disjunctive Proposition as an integral element in
the disjunctive Syllogism requires to be read from the point of view of mere ..."
6. A Manual of Logic by James Welton (1896)
"Mixed disjunctive Syllogisms. A Mixed disjunctive Syllogism, in the strict sense
of the term, is one in which the inference is drawn from the disjunctive ..."
7. Elements of Logic: Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée (1860)
"disjunctive Syllogisms. A disjunctive syllogism is one, the major premiss of
which is a disjunctive proposition (26), and the minor a categorical. ..."
8. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1863)
"disjunctive Syllogisms. An argument in which there is a disjunctive ... A pure
disjunctive argument (ie one in which no immediate inference has to be ..."
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