What does UoD stand for?

For it, the universe of discourse makes the whole of speech acts signifying as a system.

Technically, the business domain being modeled is called the universe of discourse (UoD), since it is the universe (or world) that we are interested in discoursing (or talking) about.

Though undoubtedly spiritual, Merici does not fit into the same universe of discourse as Teresa of Avila.

In such an ontology, definitions associate the names of entities in the universe of discourse (e.

eme] Elsewhere, street signs, billboards, and graffiti evoke a universe of discourse that seems completely external--so many epitaphs.

seems to plod along in its own track, maintaining an enclosed universe of discourse.

Whether we adopt the substitutional or the standard approach to quantification in logical semantics, to get the truth table of a universally quantified conditional we must review all possible examples within the universe of discourse (substitutional semantics is generally attributed to Wittgenstein, 1922, though he later abandoned it; reviews of standard semantics can be found in Hodges, 1983; Martin, 1987).

It would appear from the universe of discourse, especially in first volume, that both advocates and critics of Marx are implicitly accepting Samuelson's gibe that Marx was a minor post-Ricardian.