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Definition of Subsumes
1. subsume [v] - See also: subsume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subsumes
Literary usage of Subsumes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1880)
"What quantity subsumes is series in time, like part, succeeding like part in pure
... What quality subsumes is succession in the filling of time, ..."
2. The Syllogistic Philosophy Or Prolegomena to Science by Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1906)
"The major premise subsumes the species under the genus; the minor premise subsumes
the specimen or specimens under the species; and the conclusion subsumes ..."
3. The Syllogistic Philosophy Or Prolegomena to Science by Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1906)
"The major premise subsumes the species under the genus; the minor premise subsumes
the specimen or specimens under the species; and the conclusion subsumes ..."
4. The Principle of Teleology in the Critical Philosophy of Kant by David R. Major by David R. Major (1897)
"universal (the rule, the principle, the law) be given, the Judgment which subsumes
the particular under it is determinant. But if only the particular is ..."
5. Theory of Right, Duties and Religion: Translation, with a Supplementary by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Benjamin C. Burt (1892)
"That which subsumes in a judgment is the predicate, the subsumed being the ...
My will is here that which subsumes. I give to the thing the predicate of ..."
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