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subalternation|ˌsʌbɒltəˈneɪʃən|
[ad. med.L. subalternātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. subalternāre: see subalternate.]
†1. Subordination. Obs.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxiii. (1617) 397 Whereunto it was not possible they could concurre, vnlesse there were subalternation between them, which subalternation is naturally grounded vpon inequalitie.
†2. Succession by turn. Obs.
1616Bullokar Eng. Expos., Subalternation, A succeeding by course. 1627Donne Serm. xliv. (1640) 441 That use of Subalternation in the service of God, of that, which we have called Antiphones, and Responsaries.
3. Logic. The relation between a universal and a particular of the same quality; the opposition which exists between propositions alike in quality but differing in quantity; also, ‘an immediate inference from a universal to a particular under it’ (Cent. Dict.).
1650C. Elderfield Civ. Right Tythes 35 It may be..needful to consider her [the law's] several species, or indeed not so much their contradiction, as subalternation. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles Proem. 8 The Relate Affections of a Proposition are Conversion, Equipollence, Subalternation, and Opposition. 1697tr. Burgersdicius his Logic i. xxxii. 127 By Subalternation we express our Meaning when we would signifie that one Enunciation is subordinated to another, and does necessarily follow from it. 1813–21Bentham Ontology Wks. 1843 VIII. 203 Subalternation, viz. logical subalternation, opposition, and connexion, or the relation between cause and effect. 1864Bowen Logic vi. 155 But of these less perfect expressions some may more properly be regarded as inferences by Subalternation. 1867Atwater Logic 116 This is U, and by subalternation will give I also. |