Crossword clues for subsumption
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subsumption \Sub*sump"tion\, n.
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The act of subsuming, or of including under another.
The first act of consciousness was a subsumption of that of which we were conscious under this notion.
--Sir W. Hamilton. -
That which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a syllogism.
But whether you see cause to go against the rule, or the subsumption under the rule.
--De Quincey.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of subsuming, or something subsumed 2 (context logic English) The premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term
WordNet
n. the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) [syn: minor premise, minor premiss]
incorporating something under a more general category
Wikipedia
Subsumption may refer to:
- A minor premise in symbolic logic (see syllogism)
- The Liskov substitution principle in object-oriented programming
- Subsumption architecture in robotics
- A subsumption relation in category theory, semantic networks and linguistics, also known as a "hyponym-hypernym relationship" (Is-a)
- Formal and real capitalist subsumption describes different processes whereby capital comes to dominate an economic process. Coined in Karl Marx's Capital, Volume I
Usage examples of "subsumption".
A third hypothesis, which may be seen as complementary to the second, is that today capital continues to accumulate through subsumption in a cycle of expanded reproduction, but that increasingly it subsumes not the noncapitalist environment but its own capitalist terrain-that is, that the subsumption is no longer formal but real.
The binary conception of the world implies the essentialism and homogeneity of the identities on its two halves, and, through the relationship across that central boundary, implies the subsumption of all experience within a coherent social totality.
Biopower is another name for the real subsumption of society under capital, and both are synonymous with the globalized productive order.
No doubt you witnessed the two metafunctional subsumptions he pulled off.