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Definition of Subsumption
1. Noun. The premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion).
Group relationships: Syllogism
Generic synonyms: Assumption, Premise, Premiss
Terms within: Minor Term, Middle Term
2. Noun. Incorporating something under a more general category.
Derivative terms: Subsume, Subsume
Definition of Subsumption
1. n. The act of subsuming, or of including under another.
Definition of Subsumption
1. Noun. the act of subsuming, or something subsumed ¹
2. Noun. (logic) The premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subsumption
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subsumption
Literary usage of Subsumption
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Knowledge and Reality: A Criticism of Mr. F. H. Bradley's "Principles of Logic" by Bernard Bosanquet (1885)
"If the attributes are together as differences in a set of subjects taken as
identical, that is enough to justify subsumption, and it represents nothing more ..."
2. The Essentials of Logic, Being Ten Lectures on Judgment and Inference by Bernard Bosanquet (1895)
"I must distinguish subsumption and construction as two • forms of deduction. ...
(rt) subsumption is argument by subject and attribute; ..."
3. Logic: In Three Books, of Thought, of Investigation, and of Knowledge by Hermann Lotze (1888)
"... under the general name of inference by subsumption, and considered as the
first and most elementary form of the new group of intellectual operations. ..."
4. Logic: In Three Books, of Thought, of Investigation, and of Knowledge by Hermann Lotze (1888)
"... under the general name of inference by subsumption, and considered as the
first and most elementary form of the new group of intellectual operations. ..."
5. On the Theory of Logic: An Essay by Carveth Read (1878)
"subsumption. When Classes and Laws have been established new instances may be
discovered ... To this process I propose to restrict the name, subsumption. ..."
6. Logic, Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read (1909)
"Thirdly, the subsumption of several laws under one more general expression. ...
This process of subsumption bears the same relation to Secondary Laws, ..."
7. Theories of Knowledge: Absolutism, Pragmatism, Realism by Leslie Joseph Walker (1910)
"... leads to error, provided due care is exercised in any particular case, whether
it be one of memory, of perception, or of subsumption under general ..."
8. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"... the promises in both Testaments have the same foundation, which is Christ.1 "The
subsumption of both Testaments under one foedus Dei,'' Diestel regards ..."
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