DOMAINOFDISCOURSE

Domain of discourse

In the formal sciences, the domain of discourse, also called the universe of discourse, is the set of entities over which certain variables of interest in some formal treatment may range. The domain of discourse is usually identified in the preliminaries, so that there is no need in the further treatment to specify each time the range of the relevant variables. Many logicians distinguish, sometimes only tacitly, between the domain of a science and the universe of discourse of a formalization of the science. Guiseppe Peano formalized number theory taking its domain to be the positive integers and the universe of ...

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domain of discourse

Noun

  1. In predicate logic, an indication of the relevant set of entities that are being dealt with by quantifiers.


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