Disjunctive Proposition

The disjunctive proposition is the type of proposition which present two or

more alternatives one of which is true. It is also known as the alternative
proposition. In this proposition the alternatives are usually joined by the
conjunctions “either…or,” but not always, as the fourth of the following
illustrations exemplifies.
1. He is either asleep or awake.
2. Andre will take up either engineering, architecture or medicine.
3. Either we have a national language or we do not.
4. It is not impossible that the orbits of the planets are both circles
and ellipses.
5. Jose is either in Canada, Malaysia or Japan.

Conjunctive Proposition

The conjunctive proposition is the kind of proposition which presents two

alternatives which cannot be true simultaneously or at the same time. For
illustration the following will suffice.
1. She cannot be single and married too.
2. Mothers cannot be caring and uncaring at the same time.
3. It is impossible for a day to be sunny and at the same time rainy.
4. He cannot be in Talisay and in Bacolod at the same time.
5. It is not possible for a country to have both the presidential and the
parliamentary systems of governance.
In using places as illustration, as in the case of the fourth example, above,
care must be taken that the places used are not adjacent. If they are, it is very
possible for one to stand astride(with a leg on each side of) over the boundary
and render the argument, that one cannot be in two places at the same time,
false.

Note:

With regard to Falsity and Truthfulness of Propositions the following

must be taken into account:

A) If the relation of the subject and the predicate is unchangeable,

the proposition is considered as necessary propositions.

Examples:

a) A dog is an irrational animal. (Note: It is universally accepted that

a dog is an irrational animal).
b) A triangle has three sides