In the disjunctive judgment the demand is not for the construction of a reliable instrument of action, but for the resolution of a doubt as to which instrument is precisely fitted to the circumstances.
The process of arriving at a judgment is a process of passing from a subject with an indefinite provisional predicate--a sort of disjunctive judgment--to a subject with a defined predicate.
And this point brings us naturally to the treatment of the disjunctive judgment: "A is either B or C or D.
In the disjunctive judgment these possible reactions are thought to be limited to certain clearly defined alternatives, while in the less explicit judgments they are not so clearly brought out.
In short, the disjunctive judgment is the demand for and the attempt at a precise diagnosis of a concrete problem.
There are always present some suggestions of an answer, which make the process really a disjunctive judgment.
In the disjunctive judgment, as inclusive of the motives of the hypothetical and categorical forms, the reflective judgment would appear to have come to its limit of development.
A question might be defined as a disjunctive judgment in which one member of the disjunction is expressed and the others implied.
In fact, thedisjunctive judgment involves the identification of the practical problem.
To the mind of the educated physician the problem will take on the disjunctive form: "This is either subcortical or cortical aphasia.
Disjunctive Syllogism may be turned into a Hypothetical Syllogism: Modus tollendo ponens.
Still, the disjunctive form is necessary in setting out the relation of contradictory terms, and in stating a Division (chap.
Since a disjunctive proposition may be turned into a hypothetical proposition (chap.
Another rhetorical consideration is, that the alternatives of the disjunctiveconclusion of a Complex Dilemma should both point the same way, should be equally distasteful or paradoxical.
But no Converse or Contrapositive of such a Disjunctive can be obtained, except by first casting it into the hypothetical or categorical form.
When the alternatives of the Disjunctive are not exclusive, we have only the Modus tollendo ponens.
For our last example shows how a Disjunctive may be reduced to two Hypotheticals (of which one is redundant, being the contrapositive of the other; see chap.
Thus the disjunctiveconclusion is as bad for an opponent as the categorical one in a Simple Dilemma.
When, however, the alternatives of the Disjunctive are mutually exclusive, we have also the Modus ponendo tollens.
But they again connect these judgments, for the hypothetical form expresses their dependence upon each other, and the disjunctive their incompatibility.
The hypothetical and disjunctive judgments are assertions as to the relation of two (in the case of the disjunctive judgment even several) categorical judgments to each other.
Now, after the soul had been forced into the categorical judgment, and the hypothetical was set apart for the world, there remained for the third Idea nothing but the disjunctive major.
What real analogy is there, indeed, between the problematical determination of a concept by disjunctive predicates and the thought of reciprocity?
Disjunctive judgments spring from the law of thought of excluded third, which is a metalogical truth; they are, therefore, entirely the property of the reason, and have not their origin in the understanding.
Therefore the hypothetical and the disjunctive combination are properly no special forms of the judgment; for they are only applied to already completed judgments, in which the combination of the concepts remains unchanged the categorical.
When a disjunctiveoccurs between a singular noun, or pronoun, and a plural one, the verb is made to agree with the plural noun and pronoun.
The disjunctive conjunction connects words or sentences, and suggests an opposition of meaning, more or less direct.
When a disjunctive conjunction occurs between a singular noun or pronoun and a plural one, the verb is made to agree with the plural noun or pronoun.
The copulative and the disjunctiveconjunctions operate differently on the verb.
The Disjunctive Conjunction serves, not only to continue a sentence by connecting its parts, but also to express opposition of meaning, either real or nominal.
A disjunctive conjunction is a conjunction that denotes opposition of meaning: as, "Though he were dead, yet shall he live.
The Conjunction Disjunctive serves, not only to connect and continue the sentence, but also to express opposition of meaning in different degrees.
To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and disjunctive conjunctions.
How does a verb agree with disjunctive nominatives?
Apart from these deviations, the dialects generally express the disjunctive possessive pronouns in the same manner as the lit.
A sort of frame-work was formed by the division of the octave into tetrachords, completed by the so-called disjunctive tone; and so far all Greek music was alike.
Finally, the disjunctive judgement contains a relation of two or more propositions to each other--a relation not of consequence, but of logical opposition, in so far as the sphere of the one proposition excludes that of the other.
In indicating specifically, too, the case of conclusion from a copulative major premise with a disjunctive minor, Herbart seems to have suggested the cue for Sigwart's exposition of Bacon's method of exclusions.
The categorical and disjunctive judgment reduce to the hypothetical.
The two are complementary, and the reinstatement of the disjunctive judgment to the more honourable role in inference has been made by so notable a modern logician as Lotze.
Lastly, while the disjunctive judgement may be said to presuppose the conception of mutually exclusive species of a genus, it certainly does not presuppose the conception of reciprocal action between physical things.
The third division of judgements is said to be in respect of relation into categorical, hypothetical, and disjunctive judgements.
How in the world can disjunctive syllogizing, the confessed act of the I-thinking intelligence, really postulate anything as Totality of Conditions, in any other sense than the total of conditions for such syllogizing?
But--surely disjunctive conjunctions are the tragedies of the language!
And linked to the tragedy of the disjunctivewas this other tragedy.
Sometimes the disjunctive but is substituted for the conjunction that, as, "I have no doubt but he will be here to-night.
As has been well remarked by Archbishop Whately and others, the disjunctive form is resolvable into the conditional; every disjunctive proposition being equivalent to two or more conditional ones.
Use the copulative that, and not the disjunctive lest.
The Conjunction Disjunctive is used not only for purposes of connection, but also to express opposition of meaning in different degrees: as, “Though Lord John is as cunning as a Fox, yet Sir Robert is as deep as a Pitt.
Pyramus and Thisbe, as Ovid informs us, had more between them than they liked--a conjunction disjunctive in the shape of a wall.
The particle suh added to the complete forms of the disjunctive pronouns, imparts a verbal sense to them; and appears in this instance, to be a succedaneum for the substantive verb.
The disjunctive forms of the pronoun are also sometimes preserved before verbs and adjectives.
But let us connect these two nouns by a disjunctive conjunction, and see how the sentence will read: "Orlando or Thomas, who studies his lesson, makes rapid progress.
The disjunctive proposition also appears in the conclusion when the disjunction in the major premise happens to contain more than two terms.
The Rule regarding the Use of Disjunctive Syllogisms is that: "If one or more alternatives be denied, the rest may still be affirmed.
The Disjunctive Syllogism is one having a disjunctive proposition in its major premise.
Whately defines it as: "A conditional syllogism with two or more antecedents in the major, and a disjunctive minor.
The third class of syllogisms, known as The Disjunctive Syllogism, is the exception to the law which holds that all good syllogisms must fit in and come under the Rules of the Syllogism, as stated in the preceding chapter.
One important kind of argument is known as the Disjunctive Syllogism, though it does not obey the rules of the syllogism, or in any way resemble syllogisms.
He adds a second rule to the effect that if the disjunctive is without the word either or neither, then the verb agrees with the first of the two pronouns.
