Subject

Subject (Latin: subiectus "lying beneath") may refer to:

Philosophy

• Hypokeimenon or subiectum, in metaphysics, the "internal", non-objective being of a thing
  • Subject (philosophy), a being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity
  • Subject–object problem, the issue of how actors or observers relate to things that are observed or acted upon
  • Subject–object based metaphysics, a term for the supposedly dominant view of metaphysics in Western philosophy

Linguistics

• In general, any topic currently under consideration; see subject matter
• Subject (grammar), who or what a sentence or a clause is about
• Subject case or nominative case, one of the grammatical cases for a noun

Computing

• Subjects (programming), core elements in the subject-oriented programming paradigm
• Subject (access control)
• An element in the Resource Description Framework

Music

• The melodic material presented first in a fugue
• Either of the two main groups of themes (first subject, second subject) in sonata form

People

A subject is an individual subjected to the rule by an elite, see feudalism

• subjects in medieval feudalism, see Commoners
• subjects in modern constitutional monarchies, such as the United Kingdom, see British subject

Statistics

• A subject is someone or something that undergoes testing in a scientific experiment; see Human subject research

Library science and information science

• Subject (documents) (subject classification; subject indexing; subject searching)
• Subject term or index term, descriptor of a document used in bibliographic records

Education

• Course (education), a unit of academic instruction

Other

• Subject (album) a 2003 album by Dwele

See also

• Subject matter (disambiguation)
• Subjective (disambiguation)