Circumscription

“Circumscription: A form of non-monotonic reasoning”,

Logic and Artificial Intelligence Thomason, Richmond 2008

Circumscription makes explicit the intuition that, all other things being equal, extensions of certain predicates should be minimal.

Non-monotonic Logic Antonelli, G. Aldo 2006

McCarthy, J. (1986), “Applications of Circumscription to Formalizing Common Sense Knowledge”, Artificial Intelligence, vol. 26 (3), pp. 89-116.

The Frame Problem Shanahan, Murray 2004

Should the throes of change take me in the act of writing it, Hyde will tear it in pieces; but if some time shall have elapsed after I have laid it by, his wonderful selfishness and Circumscription to the moment will probably save it once again from the action of his ape-like spite.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2004

Should the throes of change take me in the act of writing it, Hyde will tear it in pieces; but if some time shall have elapsed after I have laid it by, his wonderful selfishness and Circumscription to the moment will probably save it once again from the action of his ape-like spite.

Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case 1921

Should the throes of change take me in the act of writing it, Hyde will tear it in pieces; but if some time shall have elapsed after I have laid it by, his wonderful selfishness and Circumscription to the moment will probably save it once again from the action of his ape-like spite.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

The rigorous Circumscription of their Trade, the Persecution of their Sectaries, and the little Demand of Tobacco, had like to have had very fatal Consequences.

The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722

For the Circumscription of a thing, is nothing else but the Determination, or Defining of its Place; and so both the Terms of the Distinction are the same.

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

The Circumscription of the Sovereign State: Theory and Practice

Sovereignty Philpott, Dan 2009

"Mavoya," from voya (fur or animal hair), for the Portuguese settler with hairy arms who worked with rolled-up sleeves; "N'waSwihenge," from a variety of corn distributed during a famine in the early 1920s, for the administrator presiding over Magude Circumscription at the time; "Fanyafanya," for a later administrator who wore the brass wire bracelets of this name; "Matandzayandhongwe," meaning locust eggs, for the administrator in office during a terrible locust epidemic in the mid-1930ssuch nicknames preserve and pass on domesticated visions of colonial actors whose identities reside in how they looked or acted in the spheres of agrarian life ordinarily accessible to women, instead of in the xilungu names that symbolized these individuals 'status as agents of colonial power.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005