Literary notes about disjunction (AI summary)
In literature, "disjunction" conveys a range of separations—from the subtle pause in punctuation to profound divisions in thought and emotion. At times, it designates the break in continuity signaled by a period that punctuates and isolates ideas in a sentence ([1], [2]), while in other instances it embodies the inner turmoil of a divided heart or mind ([3], [4]). The term also emerges in more abstract contexts, serving as a logical marker for mutually exclusive alternatives or incompatible notions ([5], [6], [7]), and it even appears to articulate the cleavage between different intellectual or physical realms ([8], [9]). This flexibility in use illustrates how "disjunction" functions as both a grammatical tool and a metaphor for separation within the human experience.
- The comma is the note of connection and continuity of sentences; the period is the note of abruption and disjunction.
— from Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Samuel Johnson - Thus, in each corrected sentence, the comma performed the office of disjunction ; and therefore the comma might be called a disjunctive .
— from Why We Punctuate; or, Reason Versus Rule in the Use of Marks by William Livingston Klein - Since then, my desire for her grows without cease, And my heart with the fires of disjunction is mined.
— from The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV - Aversion between married partners arises from a disunion of souls and a disjunction of minds, 236 .
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg - (9) In a logical disjunction what law of thought is involved?
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair - [26] Now judgment logically terminates in disjunction.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey - This is the first: The major premise must assert a logical disjunction.
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair - This, if not quite causing a disjunction, would facilitate the operation of the knife in the usual way.
— from The Repairing & Restoration of Violins'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick - Perception of the disjunction or incongruity of ideas; the analytical faculty.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 by Various
