disjunction

IPA: dɪsdʒˈʌŋkʃʌn

The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
The state of being disjoined, contrasting, or opposing.
(logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
(mathematics) A logical operator that results in “true” when some of its operands are true.
(biology) During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).

Examples of "disjunction" in Sentences

And my heart with the fires of disjunction is fried:
Can it be that the disjunction is a final one? that only one side can be true?
This study demonstrates a violation of the rule in a context that justifies the label disjunction fallacy.
Cat's stories create a similar kind of disjunction when they recast slavery and eugenics in a fantasy setting.
While I think that allowing the disjunction is the easiest fix, I suspect that the heart of the problem is in the definition of offenses.
The Latin word "vel" expresses weak or inclusive disjunction, and the Latin word "aut" corresponds to the word "or" in its strong or exclusive sense.
But nowadays the term disjunction is more often used in reference to sentences (or well-formed formulae) of associated form occurring in formal languages.
As a first approximation, then, moral anti-realism can be identified as the disjunction of three theses: moral noncognivitism moral error theory moral subjectivism
(possibly but not necessarily described as a disjunction of concepts); or they could be subordinated to a single concept which represents in a prior and a posterior manner (per prius et posterius).