<span class="searchmatch">obliterative</span> <span class="searchmatch">subsumption</span> (uncountable) The <span class="searchmatch">subsumption</span> of new knowledge that causes older knowledge to be forgotten but leaves the mental framework for...
will in the caller’s design. Something subsumed. (logic) The premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term. <span class="searchmatch">obliterative</span> <span class="searchmatch">subsumption</span> all senses...
From <span class="searchmatch">obliterate</span> + -ive. <span class="searchmatch">obliterative</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">obliterative</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">obliterative</span>) Tending or serving to <span class="searchmatch">obliterate</span>. 1977, Samuel N....
Learning, page 387: This so-called <span class="searchmatch">obliterative</span> assimilation contains two kinds of <span class="searchmatch">subsumption</span>: a derivative <span class="searchmatch">subsumption</span> (i.e., a deductive way of deriving...