Subsumption may refer to:
* A minor premise in symbolic logic (see
syllogism
A syllogism ( grc-gre, συλλογισμός, ''syllogismos'', 'conclusion, inference') is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true.
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* The
Liskov substitution principle
The Liskov substitution principle (LSP) is a particular definition of a subtyping relation, called strong behavioral subtyping, that was initially introduced by Barbara Liskov in a 1988 conference keynote address titled ''Data abstraction and h ...
in object-oriented programming
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Subtyping in programming language theory
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Subsumption architecture in robotics
* A
subsumption relation
In knowledge representation, object-oriented programming and design (see object-oriented program architecture), is-a (is_a or is a) is a subsumption relationship between abstractions (e.g. types, classes), wherein one class ''A'' is a subcla ...
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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