subsumption

1. 1. The act of subsuming.
   2. Something subsumed.
2. Logic. The minor premise of a syllogism.

[Latin subsūmptiō, subsūmptiōn-, a subsuming, from subsūmptus, past participle of subsūmere, to subsume. See subsume.]

The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion)
  Synonyms: minor premise, minor premiss

Meaning #2: incorporating something under a more general category

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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

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