Disjunctive syllogism

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(Logic)

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.

See also: Disjunctive

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No references found			Lewis' disjunctive syllogism proving the deity of Christ; Plato's hypothetical argument concerning the power of love; Christ's conjunctive syllogism: "You cannot serve both God and mammon"; David Hume's famous dilemma stating the problem of evil; the stoic Seneca's justification of the virtuous life; and St. Persecution of homeschoolers by Volk, Stephen / Catholic Insight Most of the categorical alternatives the banker casts before his admiring acolyte are disjunctive syllogisms, a statement of alternatives of the type 'either p or q; not q therefore p'. The adventure of the Anarchist Banker: reductio ad absurdum of a ... by Jackson, K. David / Portuguese Studies Indirect and Conditional proofs, as well as Disjunctive Syllogism generated a lot of errors. Mining student data captured from a web-based tutoring tool: initial ... by Yacef, Kalina / Journal of Interactive Learning Research			Disinure disinvent disinvest Disinvestiture disinvestment Disinvigorate disinvite Disinvolve disject disjecta membra Disjection disjoin disjoined disjoint disjointed disjointedly disjointedness Disjointly Disjudication disjunct Disjunct tetrachords disjunction disjunctive disjunctive conjunction Disjunctive proposition Disjunctive syllogism Disjunctively disjuncture disk disk access disk brake disk cache Disk clutch disk controller disk crash disk drive Disk engine disk error disk file disk flower disk harrow disk jockey disk operating system disk overhead disk pack disk sander disk shape Disk shell disk space disk wheel disk-jockey			disjunct Disjunct (linguistics) disjunct endemism Disjunct tetrachords disjunction disjunction disjunction disjunction disjunctions disjunctions disjunctions disjunctions disjunctive disjunctive disjunctive Disjunctive allegations Disjunctive allegations Disjunctive allegations Disjunctive Anti-link Dissolvent disjunctive conjunction disjunctive movement disjunctive movement disjunctive movement disjunctive movement disjunctive movements disjunctive movements disjunctive movements Disjunctive normal form Disjunctive proposition disjunctive search Disjunctive syllogism Disjunctive Temporal Problem Disjunctive term Disjunctive Well-Founded Semantics Disjunctive/Disjoint Normal Form disjunctively disjunctively disjunctively disjunctives disjunctives disjunctives disjunctor disjuncts disjuncts disjuncture disjuncture disjunctures disjunctures disk disk disk disk disk Disk (mathematics) disk access disk access Disk Access Buffer Disk Access Lockout Disk access time Disk access time Disk access time

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