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universe of discourse

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A class containing all the entities referred to in a discourse or argument.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun everything which may be considered, explicitly or implicitly, in a particular theory or discussion.

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  • noun logic The set of all entities over which quantifiers—including "for all" and "there exists"—range.

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  • noun everything stated or assumed in a given discussion

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