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  2. Nonattachment (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Detachment is a central concept in Zen Buddhist philosophy. One of the most important technical Chinese terms for detachment is "wú niàn" (無念), which literally means "no thought." This does not signify the literal absence of thought, but rather the state of being "unstained" (bù rán 不染) by thought. Therefore, "detachment" is being ...

  3. Detachment (territory) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Deductive reasoning - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Wigmore chart - Wikipedia

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    Wigmore evidence chart, from 1905. A Wigmore chart (commonly referred to as Wigmorean analysis) is a graphical method for the analysis of legal evidence in trials, developed by John Henry Wigmore. [1] [2] It is an early form of the modern belief network. [3] After completing his Treatise in 1904, Wigmore "became convinced that something was ...

  6. Municipal deannexation in the United States - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Condensed detachment - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  8. Rule of detachment - Wikipedia

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  9. Modus ponens - Wikipedia

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    In propositional logic, modus ponens (/ ˈ m oʊ d ə s ˈ p oʊ n ɛ n z /; MP), also known as modus ponendo ponens (from Latin 'mode that by affirming affirms'), [1] implication elimination, or affirming the antecedent, [2] is a deductive argument form and rule of inference. [3]