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<font size="3">☞</font> This page belongs to resource collections on [[Logic Live|Logic]] and [[Inquiry Live|Inquiry]].
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C.S. Peirce attributes the term '''''universe of discourse''''' to De Morgan (1846).
Boole (1854) defines '''''universe of discourse''''' in the following manner:
Boole (1854) defines '''''universe of discourse''''' in the following manner:
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==Reference==
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==References==
* Boole, George (1854/1958), ''An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities'', Macmillan Publishers, 1854. Reprinted with corrections, Dover Publications, New York, NY, 1958.
* Boole, George (1854/1958), ''An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities'', Macmillan Publishers, 1854. Reprinted with corrections, Dover Publications, New York, NY, 1958.
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* De Morgan, Augustus (1846), ''Cambridge Philosophical Transactions'', ''viii'', p. 380.
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