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What is a subsumption?

What is a subsumption? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of subsuming, or something subsumed.
  2. (logic) The premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term.
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The school, independent since its founding in 1847, had avoided subsumption by the public Imperial College only to emerge in financial disrepair, near to shutdown, in need of new direction and an entirely new structure.
This process of subsumption bears the same relation to secondary laws, that these do to particular facts.
The act of recognition is a subsumption of the object under a class by use of the second figure of the syllogism.
There are many reasons to snipe at the Stones: the money grubbing, the subsumption of art beneath commerce, their willingness to live off past glories by recycling their greatest hits into package after package.
The subsumption of this security interest in money market shares under the concept of setoff is most unwarranted.
It leads Kant to describe schematism as a process of subsumption, and to speak of the transcendental schema as a third thing.

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