The possibility of this subsumption presupposes a tertium quid, which is homogeneous both with the object of empirical perception and with the conception, and so makes the subsumption mediately possible.
Thus an application of the category to phenomena becomes possible, by means of the transcendental determination of time, which, as the schema of the conceptions of the understanding, mediates the subsumption of the latter under the former.
How then is the subsumptionof the latter under the former, and consequently the application of the categories to phenomena, possible?
Failing this condition of judgement (schema), subsumption is impossible; for there is in such a case nothing given, which may be subsumed under the conception.
The subsumption of the condition of another possible judgement under the condition of the rule is the minor.
The major premise is a memory; the minor is an immediate reactive, sensori-motor datum; the conclusion is the subsumption of the present datum under the memory.
The only difficulty is the nature of the process of subsumption of the present datum with the memory.
For if category and sensuous intuition are really heterogeneous, no subsumption is possible; and if they are not really heterogeneous, no such problem as Kant here refers to will exist.
For only when the subsumption is that of a particular instance under a universal rule, can the necessity of a mediating condition be allowed.
This interpretation is borne out by Kant's answer to Beck when the latter objected that only through subsumption under the categories can a representation become objective.
The general remark is added that the purpose of Reason, in its logical employment as inference, is to obtain the highest possible unity, through subsumption of all multiplicity under the smallest possible number of universals.
Regarded in this way, as the application of a rule, subsumption is more broadly viewed and becomes a more appropriate analogy for the relation of category to content.
Thus even the association of ideas is to be treated as a subsumption of the individual under the universal, which forms their connecting link.
The subsumption of particular facts under more general facts leads ultimately to a most general, highest fact, which cannot be reduced to a more general one, and hence cannot be explained or comprehended.
The subsumption of phenomena or empirical intuitions under the category is effected through the Schemata[1] of the concepts of the understanding, i.
A further addition to the abstract formula of the categorical imperative results from the discussion of the question, What universal ends admit of subsumption under it, i.
The first act of consciousness was a subsumption of that of which we were conscious under this notion.
But whether you see cause to go against the rule, or the subsumptionunder the rule.
For here the subsumption of what is heterogeneous is at once distinct and unforced.
Here the subsumption of the heterogeneous under the more general conception is very distinct, but the witticism is exceedingly happy, and the ludicrous effect produced by it excessively strong.
This is also the nature of the application so popular in Germany of serious verses, especially of Schiller, to trivial events, which clearly contains a subsumption of heterogeneous things under the general conception which the verse expresses.
This process of subsumption bears the same relation to secondary laws, that these do to particular facts.
Thirdly, the subsumption of several laws under one more general expression.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subsumption" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: assumption; implication; involvement; presumption
