The word 'preclusion' is correct and usable in written English
It means the act of preventing something from happening or being possible. Example: The preclusion of outside food and drinks in the theater was strictly enforced.
William Schlusser,Kuala Lumpur 'Citizens in uniform' The news article "Germany grows closer to ending military conscription" (June 3) does not mention one fundamental reason for its original adoption — the preclusion of a military elite and the establishment instead of a tradition of "citizens in uniform".
I almost point out that's no preclusion to using the bus where I live, but he adds: "Generally, left to their own devices, people want to do the right thing".
Old doctrines like deterrence and containment are obsolete and must give way to new strategies of "preclusion" (a word that distinguishes it from the term "pre-emption" in the National Security Strategy of 2002, though the sense seems to be the same).
There are various responses to the problem of moot preclusion.
The preclusion of women from the experience of the sublime limits their competence to apprehend the moral and existential weight of the might and magnitude of both nature and art.
Similarly, Epicureans might insist, the preclusion of goods by death is moot: cut short, my life is worse than it would be were I not to die, but this comparative difference does not show that I am harmed.
By failing to be brilliant, rich and beautiful, I am precluded from having many goods, but we might say that the preclusion is moot, in the sense that it is harmless to me.
Another response is that moot preclusion involves cases in which the events or states of affairs that would be good for us if they held are highly improbable (Draper 1999).
