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This disconnexion of the situation of the blue and the situation of some associated perceptual object does not require a star for its exemplification.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

Soulless matter, which only exists as a logical abstraction, is arrived at by looking at things "in disconnexion, dull and spiritless."

From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph

Its disconnexion from the complex of fact is a mere abstraction.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

The theory which I am expounding sweeps away this disconnexion of the facts of space.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

Mr. Dosson's designs and Delia's took no articulate form; what was mainly clear to Gaston was that his future wife's relatives had as yet no sense of disconnexion.

From The Reverberator by James, Henry