SUPERSUMPTION

Charles François (2004). SUPERSUMPTION, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 3268.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(2)
ID	◀ 3268 ▶
Object type	General information, Epistemology, ontology or semantics

“The ripping away of a concept from its proper place in a context, and elevating it to undeserved status” (J. WARFIELD, 1991, pers comm.).

This is the opposite of subsumption.

WARFIELD uses the example of the so-called “economic man” as the not otherwise qualified subject of economic science, thus supersuming one particular aspect of men's behavior and “thereby perpetuate a defective, arbitrary defined, set of ideas about human behavior” (1990 b, p.291).

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