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circumscription

How to use circumscription in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for circumscription.

Editorial note

There are circumscriptions on that, but it is still protected.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

the act of circumscribing

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the act of circumscribing

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for circumscription.

noun

the act of circumscribing

Example sentences

1

There are circumscriptions on that, but it is still protected.

2

A long, rare word may be more descriptive than a long-winded circumscription using common words.

3

> Speaking, in and of itself is nice, but the function that right serves is the circumscription of state power. Quick side note, but this is a very narrow reading of free speech that I expect many people would disagree with.

4

Then he wrote it up in his notation for "circumscription", cranked the notation, and the answer came out. I thought at the time, as he converted the problem to his notation, "here's where the miracle occurs".

5

Then he set it up in a form where his circumscription approach would work, turned the crank on the formalism, and the answer came out. As he was setting up the problem in the correct form, I thought "This is where the miracle occurs".

6

Sounds to me like the circumscription of a need for a majority itself comes from anti-union legislation.

7

You'd need even more circumscription of the powers of the legislature for it to work at all; history suggests that it's at best a partial solution. > I would prefer majority rule to what we have.

8

Speaking, in and of itself is nice, but the function that right serves is the circumscription of state power. > Anonymity is a tool to shield people from otherwise unpreventable consequences.

9

A large proprotion of people vote for the parties or the leaders of parties, not the individual who happens to be the MP in the circumscription. I certainly do put more weigh on the party's program than on a choice of a local shmuck among multiple local smucks.

10

I am a bit of a libertarian when it comes to civil liberties -- I flinch at any circumscription of speech, even when it is noxious. Still, for a very long time I was troubled by my readings of the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany.

11

As with many topics of dispute, there's a bit of a gap between the prescriptions of advocates and the fears of those who oppose circumscription of hate speech. Most proposed legislation falls in line with Mill's principle, and indeed, general legal precedent over inchoate offenses.

12

But food labeling is pretty well standardized, you can't just make up your own terms and add ten pages of convoluted circumscriptions and then say that's ok because a professional trained in just the right sub-field of biochemistry could deduce what's in there. If privacy policies were like food labeling nobody would object.

13

Now I can listen to music where-ever I happen to be, and I don't have those circumscriptions to my attention. If my Apple device annoys me sufficiently that I really want to have that level of control, there's a myriad of devices out there that automount as USB devices, that I could set up all sorts of nifty on-insert rules and script to high-heaven.

14

It’s meant to reconcile these differences, but is in no way broadly inclusive to political interests outside this narrow circumscription. Concessions have been won to further democratize the system, but these were largely accomplished outside its terrain in things like the Civil War, labor struggle, suffrage and civil rights movements.

15

Further, in the case of a person transacting with government, with potentially some carful circumscription for aspects of law enforcement, I believe the state should additionally carry the data equivalent to a fiduciary duty for that transaction.

16

In order to Godelize a system, not only does the system need to be circumscribed, but the thing doing the Godelizing has to be outside of the boundaries of the circumscription. Let's recall the original argument: "a mechanist formulates a particular mechanistic thesis by claiming, for example, that the human mind is a Turing machine with a given formal specification S. Lucas then refutes this thesis by producing S’s Gödel sentence, which we can see is true, but the Turing machine cannot.

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People published papers about things like non-monotonic logics, intentional vs extensional logics, higher-order logics, the frame problem, circumscription... One thing that always bothered me about the field was that the whole premise behind using logic as the basis for AI seemed to me to be obviously flawed because neither the inputs to nor the outputs from my brain were logical propositions, they were images and sounds on the input side, and sounds and gestures on the output side.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use circumscription in a sentence?

There are circumscriptions on that, but it is still protected.

What does circumscription mean?

the act of circumscribing

What part of speech is circumscription?

circumscription is commonly used as noun.