Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of subsuming.
- noun Something subsumed.
- noun Logic The minor premise of a syllogism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of subsuming; the act of mentioning as an instance of a rule or an example of a class; the act of including under something more general (and, in the strict use of the word, something already considered), as a particular under a universal, or a species under a genus.
- noun That which is subsumed; the minor premise of a syllogism, when stated after the major premise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of subsuming, or of including under another.
- noun That which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a syllogism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
subsuming , or somethingsubsumed - noun logic The
premise of asyllogism that contains theminor term
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun incorporating something under a more general category
- noun the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Another strategy is to remove more specific clauses in the presence of more general ones by a process known as subsumption (Robinson 1965a).
Automated Reasoning Portoraro, Frederic 2005
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While this is certainly better than manually adding some property / subproperty lists, especially for maintenance purposes, it requires that the underlying models (e.g. FOAF if you want to deal with rdfs: label / foaf: name subsumption) must be loaded in the triple store, which you can do when setting it up, e.g.:
Planet RDF 2009
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While this is certainly better than manually adding some property / subproperty lists, especially for maintenance purposes, it requires that the underlying models (e.g. FOAF if you want to deal with rdfs: label / foaf: name subsumption) must be loaded in the triple store, which you can do when setting it up, e.g.:
Planet RDF 2008
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James also hinted at another level of subsumption which is more interesting - the case of the two patterns implemented in a prototype based language like Javascript.
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There are no other parameters that might halt their subsumption of the troublesome race?
365 tomorrows » 2010 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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There are no other parameters that might halt their subsumption of the troublesome race?
365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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The subsumption of the psyche makes it available for further re-conceptualisation, for the invention of new pathologies and new perversions.
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They include women's enclaves that for centuries remained hidden behind the art historical depictions of women made by male artists -- enclaves that except for the religious orders have become depreciated in their cultural and commercial subsumption today, if not made near-extinct in the West.
G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade G. Roger Denson 2010
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They include women's enclaves that for centuries remained hidden behind the art historical depictions of women made by male artists -- enclaves that except for the religious orders have become depreciated in their cultural and commercial subsumption today, if not made near-extinct in the West.
G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade G. Roger Denson 2010
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They include women's enclaves that for centuries remained hidden behind the art historical depictions of women made by male artists -- enclaves that except for the religious orders have become depreciated in their cultural and commercial subsumption today, if not made near-extinct in the West.
G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade G. Roger Denson 2010
super-rb commented on the word subsumption
Is it fair to say that a premise(if true) could and would be a subsumption but not a subsumption if false?
October 19, 2008