Subject

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Subject may refer to:

Contents 1 In knowledge and education 1.1 In philosophy 2 In computation 3 In government 4 In media 5 See also

[edit] In knowledge and education

• An area of knowledge, a topic, an area of interest or study
• Course (education), a unit of academic instruction
  • List of academic disciplines
• 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 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 government

• Subjects or the common people

[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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