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for universe of discourse
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Universe of discourse \U"ni*verse of dis"course\, n.
everything which may be considered, explicitly or implicitly,
in a particular theory or discussion.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
universe of discourse
n 1: everything stated or assumed in a given discussion [syn:
universe, universe of discourse]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) :
universe of discourse
In ontology, the set of all entities
that can be represented in some declarative language or other
formal system.
Each entity is represented by a name and may have some
human-readable description of its meaning. Formal axioms
constrain the interpretation and well-formed use of these
names.
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