domain of discourse or universe of discourse (borrowing from the mathematical concept of universe) is the set of entities over which certain variables of interest...
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universe of discourse is in the strictest sense the ultimate subject of the discourse. — George Boole, Boole (1854). An Investigation of the Laws of Thought...
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George Boole (category Academics of Queens College Cork)
the objects of our discourse are found, that field may properly be termed the universe of discourse. Furthermore, this universe of discourse is in the strictest...
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Wholistic reference (redirect from Principle of wholistic reference)
content terms, refers to the whole of its universe of discourse. According to this principle every proposition of number theory, even an equational proposition...
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of thought are fundamental axiomatic rules upon which rational discourse itself is often considered to be based. The formulation and clarification of...
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interdisciplinary or social commonality, often in the context of a "shared universe of discourse". Fiction in some media, such as most television programs...
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Universal quantification (section Rules of inference)
satisfied by every member of a domain of discourse. In other words, it is the predication of a property or relation to every member of the domain. It asserts...
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"Bayonetwork: Vultures in Vivid Color", "Liarsenic: Creating a Universe of Discourse" and "Absentimental: Street Clam". The track "Pretendeavor: In Reference...
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primitive notion, that of a hereditary well-founded set, so that all entities in the universe of discourse are such sets. Thus the axioms of Zermelo–Fraenkel...
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Object–role modeling (ORM) is used to model the semantics of a universe of discourse. ORM is often used for data modeling and software engineering. An...
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Data modeling (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the National Institute of Standards and Technology)
of the real world. The purpose of semantic data modeling is to create a structural model of a piece of the real world, called "universe of discourse"...
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Aristotle for Everybody (section Part I: Aristotle's Universe of Discourse: His Categories and his Taxonomy [Man the Philosophical Animal])
criticizes Aristotle for accepting the conventional views of his day regarding the supposed inferiority of women, and greek slavery, he nonetheless asserts that...
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in a universe of discourse must first be seen to form an intelligible paradigm before many theorists will consider that the coherence theory of truth...
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that surrounds all the circles; this is called the universe of discourse or the domain of discourse. Couturat observed that, in a direct algorithmic (formal...
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Total relation (category Properties of binary relations)
is said to be total with respect to a universe of discourse just in case everything in that universe of discourse stands in that relation to something...
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Ontological commitment (category Philosophy of language)
'existence' referred to need not be 'real', but exist only in a universe of discourse. As an example, legal systems use vocabulary referring to 'legal...
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Gottlob Frege (redirect from The Basic Laws of Arithmetic)
work of Frege. A "concept" F is "small" if the objects falling under F cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence with the universe of discourse, that...
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ELIZA (category History of artificial intelligence)
had no built-in contextual framework or universe of discourse. However, this required ELIZA to have a script of instructions on how to respond to inputs...
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{\displaystyle G\land F} In the universe of discourse defined by this Euler diagram, in addition to the conjunctions specified above, all of the sets from A through...
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An entity is something that exists as itself. It does not need to be of material existence. In particular, abstractions and legal fictions are usually...
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sometimes called the universe of discourse. × (multiplication sign) See also × in § Arithmetic operators. 1. Denotes the Cartesian product of two sets. That...
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Look up Universe or universe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The universe is all of time and space and their contents. Universe may also refer to:...
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Alfred Tarski (category Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
transformations (automorphisms) of a domain onto itself. By domain is meant the universe of discourse of a model for the semantic theory of logic. If one identifies...
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capacities of C become enshrined in a type universe UC mirroring C. Conglomerate (mathematics) Domain of discourse Grothendieck universe Herbrand universe Free...
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QUA can be defined as follows, where U {\displaystyle U} is the universe of discourse, F {\displaystyle F} is a variable over sets, and p {\displaystyle...
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follows, where capital X is a variable over sets, U is the universe of discourse, p is a mereological part structure on U, and ⊕ p {\displaystyle \oplus...
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Sophistication (section Scope of sophistication)
University of Chicago Press. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-226-34684-7. Retrieved 2011-02-24. But the mutakallim's universe of discourse now included the whole range of Falsafah...
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Sign (semiotics) (section Classes of triadic signs)
is the universe of discourse, the totality of objects in that world to which one attributes the partial object. For example, perturbation of Neptune's...
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Tobias Dantzig (category University of Paris alumni)
Geometry (1940) Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse (1954) The Bequest of the Greeks (1955); Dantzig, Tobias (2006)...
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Logos (category Conceptions of God)
connotations is that of a rational form of discourse that relies on inductive and deductive reasoning. Aristotle first systematized the usage of the word, making...
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