A binary connective acting as an intensional disjunction that is frequently encountered in relevant logics. In many relevant logics, fission is defined so that (or equivalently, as ). This definition leads to the interpretation of fission as a disjunction in which there is an implicit connection between the two disjuncts that licenses disjunctive syllogism. Proponents of relevant logics reject disjunctive syllogism, i.e., the inference
on the grounds that it is an essential component in proofs of the principle of explosion, i.e., that in classical logic. (The possible irrelevance of the subject-matter of to that of runs counter to the position of relevant logic.) But when there is a connection of relevance between and , relevant logics often license the intensional disjunctive syllogism:
Fission is related to its dual fusion, itself interpreted as an intensional conjunction.