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subsumption

/suhb-suhmp-shuhn/US // səbˈsʌmp ʃən //UK // (səbˈsʌmpʃən) //

归并,归纳,归属感,归属

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of subsuming.
    • : the state of being subsumed.
    • : something that is subsumed.
    • : a proposition subsumed under another.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Thinking is subsumption—just placing a particular proposition under its universal.

  • The act of recognition is a subsumption of the object under a class by use of the second figure of the syllogism.

  • The subsumption of the condition of another possible judgement under the condition of the rule is the minor.

  • It leads Kant to describe schematism as a process of subsumption, and to speak of the transcendental schema as a third thing.

  • There would be no difficulty with this subsumption if the objects and the conceptions of the understanding were the same in kind.