Definition of "subsumption" [sub•sump•tion]

• The act of subsuming. (noun)
• Something subsumed. (noun)
• Logic The minor premise of a syllogism. (noun)

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• "Another strategy is to remove more specific clauses in the presence of more general ones by a process known as subsumption (Robinson 1965a)."
• "While this is certainly better than manually adding some property / subproperty lists, especially for maintenance purposes, it requires that the underlying models (e.g. FOAF if you want to deal with rdfs: label / foaf: name subsumption) must be loaded in the triple store, which you can do when setting it up, e.g.:"
• "James also hinted at another level of subsumption which is more interesting - the case of the two patterns implemented in a prototype based language like Javascript."