Subject
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Subject may refer to:
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[edit] In knowledge and education
- An area of knowledge, a topic, an area of interest or study
- Course (education), a unit of academic instruction
- Subject (grammar), one of two main constituent parts of a sentence
- Subject case or nominative case, the grammatical case for a noun
- Subject term or index term, in information retrieval, a descriptor of a document used in bibliographic records
- Research subject, an organism (human or otherwise) that is observed for purposes of research
[edit] In philosophy
- Subject (philosophy), a being which has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness or a relationship with another entity
- Subject-object problem, the issue of how actors or observers relate to things which are observed or acted upon
- Subject-object based metaphysics, author Robert M. Pirsig's term for the dominant view of metaphysics in Western philosophy
- Subject-SUBJECT consciousness, a concept proposed by Harry Hay to describe non-heterosexual relationship dynamics
- Hypokeimenon or subiectum, in metaphysics, the essential being of a thing
[edit] In government, politics, and law
- A serf, in feudal society
- A citizen
- British subject, a British citizen
- Subject of the state, a person who did not qualify for full citizenship in Nazi Germany
- Federal subjects of Russia, the basic subdivision of the Russian Federation
- Subject of international law, nations and organizations that participate in the "law of nations"
- Subject of labor, a concept in Marxist political economy that refers to "everything to which man's labor is directed"
[edit] In computation
- Subjects (programming), core elements in the subject-oriented programming paradigm
- Subject (access control), in computer security, an entity that can perform actions that may require authorization
- An element in the Resource Description Framework, a family of World Wide Web Consortium specifications
[edit] In media
- Subject (album) (2003), by rhythm and blues singer Dwele
- The Subject Bible, an edition of the King James Bible including a topical Bible
- "Subjects for Contemplation" ("Upajjhatthana Sutta"), a Buddhist discourse
- In music, the first melodic fragment of a fugue
[edit] See also
- Subject matter (disambiguation)
- Subjective
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