 | Alexander Macfarlane - 1879 - 220 pages
...discourse ; but this universe is not one described by a substantive. ' In every discourse,' he says, ' whether of the mind conversing with its own thoughts,...or expressed limit within which the subjects of its operations are confined. The most unfettered discourse is that in which the words we use are understood... | |
 | Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods - 2004 - 780 pages
...discourse" to refer to the universe of logical subjects, and according to Boole, every discourse involves "an assumed or expressed limit within which the subjects of its operation are confined," in other words, a universe of discourse which is "in the strictest sense the ultimate subject of the... | |
 | Michael Beaney, Erich H. Reck - 2005 - 458 pages
...even if, with Boole, the restriction of actual discourses is admitted: 'in every discourse [ . . . ] there is an assumed or expressed limit within which the subjects of its operations are confined' (1854, p. 42). Grattan-Guinness, however, sees an analogy to Augustus De Morgan... | |
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In every discourse, whether of the mind conversing with its own thoughts, or of the individual in his intercourse with others, there is an assumed or expressed limit within which the subjects of its operation are confined. 