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Encyclopedic overview
Subsumption may refer to: A minor premise in symbolic logic (see syllogism) The Liskov substitution principle in object-oriented programming Subtyping in programming language theory Subsumption architecture in robotics A subsumption relation 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 Theta-subsumption, a decidable entailment relation between clauses
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