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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. List of rules of inference - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Modus ponens - Wikipedia

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    Modus ponens allows one to eliminate a conditional statement from a logical proof or argument (the antecedents) and thereby not carry these antecedents forward in an ever-lengthening string of symbols; for this reason modus ponens is sometimes called the rule of detachment [7] or the law of detachment. [8]

  5. 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.

  6. 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 .

  7. Rule of detachment - Wikipedia

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  8. Depersonalization - Wikipedia

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    Depersonalization is a dissociative phenomenon characterized by a subjective feeling of detachment from oneself, manifesting as a sense of disconnection from one's thoughts, emotions, sensations, or actions, and often accompanied by a feeling of observing oneself from an external perspective.

  9. 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.