- minor premise, minor premiss, subsumption - the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion)
--1 is a kind of premise, premiss, assumption
--1 is a part of syllogism
--1 has parts: minor term; middle term - subsumption - incorporating something under a more general category
--2 is a kind of classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting
Derived forms: verb subsume1, verb subsume2