distributive justice See JUSTICE. distributive laws, the logical principles A 8 (B 7 C) S (A 8 B) 7 (A 7 C) and A 7 (B 8 C) S (A 7 B) 8 (A 7 C). Conjunction is thus said to distribute over disjunction and disjunction over conjunction. See also DE MORGAN’S LAWS. G.F.S.