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词汇 circumscription
释义 circumscription
noun[ C or U ]
 formaluk /ˌsɜː.kəmˈskrɪp.ʃən/ us /ˌsɝː.kəmˈskrɪp.ʃən/
the act of circumscribing(= limiting something), or the state of being circumscribed:
This Act led to the circumscription of presidential powers in the area of foreign policy.
He considered this to be a serious circumscription of his political rights.
There are always people who are quick to proclaim the injustice of specific circumscriptions.
The tumour was typified by asymmetry and poor circumscription.
The idea of nationality is by definition bound up with the ideas of circumscription and exclusion.
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Examples of circumscription


circumscription
Default theories of artificial intelligence, circumscription, default logic, and autoepistemic reasoning have been shown to be computable using extensions of logic programming.
Applications of circumscription to formalizing commonsense knowledge.
Fast algorithms to compute minimal models, stable models and answer sets are essential for the computational effectiveness of propositional circumscription, logic programming and disjunctive logic programming as answer-set programming systems.
It is not in favour of any further circumscription of this position.
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Thus, more detailed circumscription of the variable context may shed further light on the social and linguistic correlates of discourse level phenomena.
The substratum reduplication is subject to the normative circumscription by the properties of the superstratum reduplication.
Couched in semi-religious terms, the 'veiled' discourse that ensued served to remove the focus from the circumscription of the female body.
The review is ' 'relatively complete' ' in the sense that it covers default logic, autoepistemic logic, circumscription, logic programming, and belief revision.
However, in doing so its reduced circumscription "weakens" domain-specific synthesis.
The emphasis throughout is on the relative circumscription of market dependency.
The circumscription of the scope and content of the variable may also proceed from the semantic to the formal.
The complexity of propositional closed world reasoning and circumscription.
Sceptical default reasoning is 2 -hard, even for very simple classes of default rules, as is sceptical autoepistemic reasoning and propositional circumscription.
Some elements of circumscription (a major topic are in itself) are studied.
Strenuous work is going on, work that encourages the jostling of competing discourses rather than the circumscription of one by another.
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