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Detachment (Old French de, from, and [at]tach, joining with a stake) under international law is the formal, permanent separation of and loss of sovereignty over some territory to another geopolitical entity (either adjacent or noncontiguous). Detachment can be considered the opposite or reverse of annexation.
Modus ponens (also known as "affirming the antecedent" or "the law of detachment") is the primary deductive rule of inference. It applies to arguments that have as first premise a conditional statement ( P → Q {\displaystyle P\rightarrow Q} ) and as second premise the antecedent ( P {\displaystyle P} ) of the conditional statement.
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Other terms for deannexation include disannexation, secession, detachment, [2] disconnection, [3] severance [4] and exclusion. [4] Deannexation for the purpose of creating a new municipality is sometimes called division. [5] The procedures and requirements for deannexation vary greatly among the states.
Detachment (military), a military unit which has left its parent unit altogether; Detachment (territory), a concept in international law; A term used in the United Kingdom for an enclave or exclave; Detachment fault, geological term associated with large displacements; Décollement, a geological term for a zone where rock units are detached ...
Condensed detachment (Rule D) is a method of finding the most general possible conclusion given two formal logical statements. It was developed by the Irish logician Carew Meredith in the 1950s and inspired by the work of Łukasiewicz .
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Rules of inference are syntactical transform rules which one can use to infer a conclusion from a premise to create an argument. A set of rules can be used to infer any valid conclusion if it is complete, while never inferring an invalid conclusion, if it is sound.