Subsumption Explained

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