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Universe of discourse   Listen
noun
Universe of discourse  n.  Everything which may be considered, explicitly or implicitly, in a particular theory or discussion.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Universe of discourse" Quotes from Famous Books



... there may actually be whole universes so disparate from ours that we who know ours have no means of perceiving that they exist. We conceive their diversity, however; and by that fact the whole lot of them form what is known in logic as 'a universe of discourse.' To form a universe of discourse argues, as this example shows, no further kind of connexion. The importance attached by certain monistic writers to the fact that any chaos may become a universe by merely being named, is to me incomprehensible." ...
— Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell



Words linked to "Universe of discourse" :   cognitive content, universe, mental object



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