"Subsume" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... classification is the abstract essence embedded in the living fact,—the rest of the living fact being for the time ignored by the classifier. This means that none of our explanations are complete. They subsume things under heads wider or more familiar; but the last heads, whether of things or of their connections, are mere abstract genera, data which we just find in things and ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James |
