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Universe of discourse   /jˈunəvˌərs əv dˈɪskɔrs/   Listen
Universe of discourse

noun
1.
Everything stated or assumed in a given discussion.  Synonym: universe.






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... are physical in their origin, they are, for Darwin and his followers, factors in the evolutionary process in its physical or organic aspect. By the physiologist within his special and well-defined universe of discourse they may be properly regarded as epiphenomena; but by the naturalist in his more catholic survey of nature they cannot be so regarded, and were not so regarded by Darwin. Intelligence has contributed to evolution of which it is in ...
— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel



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