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.
This article is concerned only with this traditional use. The syllogism was at the core of traditional deductive reasoning, where facts are determined by combining existing statements, in contrast to inductive reasoning where facts are determined by repeated observations.