Sentence examples for definite clause from inspiring English sources
noun
A Horn clause with exactly one positive literal.
- The clauses \neg p \vee q , \neg p \vee \neg q \vee r , and \neg p \vee \neg q \vee \neg r \vee s are examples of definite clauses. At least in classical logic these would be equivalent to the formulae p \rightarrow q, (p \wedge q) \rightarrow r, and (p \wedge q \wedge r) \rightarrow s, respectively.
The term rule-based program is meant to include definite clause programs, SOS specifications, attribute grammars, and conditional rewrite systems.
They can be embedded in Prolog systems in internal Dsls using term expansion and as external Dsls using definite clause grammars and quasi-quotations – for more sophisticated syntaxes.
One can then use these variables in a way very similar to the use of position arguments in Definite Clause Grammars as used in logic programming.
A closely related formalism is that of definite clause grammars (e.g., Pereira & Warren 1982), which employ Prolog to assert "facts" such as that if the input word sequence contains an NP reaching from index I1 to index I2 and a VP reaching from index I2 to index I3, then the input contains a sentence reaching from index I1 to index I3.
All the data in the system (E+, E−, B, h) are definite clauses of the following form: h← b1, b2,…, b n where h, b1, b2,…, b n are atoms.
Focusing on the clause's definite article ("the recess"), Justice Scalia read the term to apply only to official breaks between sessions of Congress:The notion that the Constitution empowers the President to make unilateral appointments every time the Senate takes a half-hour lunch break is so absurd as to be self refuting.
You don't have to buy the full proposition if you don't want to – there is a definite escape clause (away from doctrinal study) that says no one can make you take away what you don't want to take away from the experience.
For example, the definite article is placed after the noun or adjective (e.g., masa 'table,' masata 'table the'), as in Albanian and Romanian, and the infinitive form of the verb is replaced with a clause, as in modern Greek, Albanian, and Romanian.
In detail, these clauses (using the numbering system from the 1297 statute) state that: Magna Carta was given its name in Latin, a language which has no direct, consistent correlate of the English definite article "the".
Not definitive, just definite.
IL-15, synthesized by activated IECs, stimulates the conversion of dendritic cells and monocytes into APCs with the definite histocompatibility complex DQ2/DQ8 (reaction #16) (see clause (6)).
