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Subsumption   Listen
noun
Subsumption  n.  
1.
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."
2.
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."





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"Subsumption" Quotes from Famous Books



... between the merely physical and the hyperphysical natures of man, and the subsumption of the former into the latter which ...
— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart


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