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subsumption|səbˈsʌm(p)ʃən|
[ad. mod.L. subsumptio, -ōnem, n. of action f. subsūmĕre to subsume.]
1. Logic. A proposition subsumed under another; a minor premiss; gen., an assumption.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋182 Galen himself proveth the subsumption. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 57 They shall sweat more than enough, before they will prove the subsumption or second Proposition. 1672G. Mackenzie Pleadings Pref. A iij b, It is the nature of a syllogisme to haue the subsumption in the second proposition. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4037/5 This is not offered as an Elogie..on Her Majesty: She is far above what I can say, but it is an Antecedent to the following Subsumption. 1838Sir W. Hamilton Logic xvi (1866) I. 295 The proposition in which is expressed the relation of the middle term to the minor, is the Subsumption or Minor Premise. 1876W. Fleming Vocab. Philos. (ed. 3) s.v., Thus, if one were to say, ‘No man is wise in all things’, and another to respond, ‘But you are a man’, this proposition is a subsumption under the former.
b. Sc. Law. In full subsumption of the libel: a narrative of the alleged crime, specifying the manner, time, and place of the crime, the person injured, etc. Obs. exc. Hist.
1639Declar. conc. Tumults Scot. 256 The subsumptions of the particular faults committed by the Bishop of the Diocese. 1678G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. ii. xxi. §i. (1699) 232 The Subsumption of the Libel, is the matter of Fact, which should condescend upon the Actors Names, and Designations. 1720Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 491 Probably you will have heard the contents of it, and whether the subsumption relates to the stipend, or the five hundred pounds, or both. 1727Ibid. III. 304 The whole of Mr. Dundas' arguments run upon this supposition, that heresy was to be the subsumption of the libel. 1838in W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 951.
2. Chiefly Logic and Philos. The bringing of a concept, cognition, etc. under a general term or a larger or higher concept, etc.; the instancing of a case under a rule, or the like.
1652J. Pawson Vind. Free Grace 7 The term (as many παν ὁ quotquot) is too comprehensive and large to be restrained to so few as the Apostles; especially considering 'tis put as a sutable subsumption under that general term (all flesh) immediately foregoing. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. (Bohn) 339 The understanding..is the science of phenomena, and their subsumption under distinct kinds and sorts (genus and species). 1823De Quincey Lett. to Yng. Man Wks. 1860 XIV. 33 The minor is..distinguished from the major by an act of the judgment, namely, a subsumption of a special case under a rule. Ibid. 34 A casuistry, that is, a subsumption of the cases most frequently recurring in ordinary life. 1838[F. Haywood] tr. Kant's Crit. Pure Reason 290 The subsumption of the condition of another possible judgment under the condition of the rule, is the minor. 1855Sandars in Oxford Ess. 244 The administrative power, or the subsumption of different spheres and particular cases under the universal. 1864Bowen Logic vii. 188 The Judgment that a given ‘Subject is contained under that intermediate Term or part’, is the Subsumption of this Subject under the condition of that Rule. 1892Athenæum 25 June 829/2 Is not the subsumption of fetishism under animism, as by Dr. Tylor, a self-contradictory confusing of two essentially different conceptions? |