Another indicator of the presence of medical waste, which may be used instead of or in addition to the red or orange color code, is the BIOHAZARD symbol. Medical waste from health care facilities must be treated in a way that destroys its potential for causing disease, prior to disposing it in a landfill.
In classical logic disjunctive syllogism (historically known as modus tollendo ponens) is a valid argument form which is a syllogism having a disjunctive statement for one of its premises.
syllogism. n. 1. (Logic) a deductive inference consisting of two premises and a conclusion, all of which are categorial propositions. The subject of the conclusion is the minor term and its predicate the major term; the middle term occurs in both premises but not the conclusion.