Subject

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

Philosophy

• Hypokeimenon or subiectum, in metaphysics, the essential 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 dominant view of metaphysics in Western philosophy

Grammar

in general use, any topic currently under consideration, see subject matter:

• • Subject (grammar), 'who or what the sentence is about'
  • Subject case or nominative case, the grammatical case for a noun
  • Subject term or index term, descriptor of a document used in bibliographic records
• Course (education), a unit of academic instruction
• Research subject, an entity observed for purposes of research
• in computing:
  • Subjects (programming), core elements in the subject-oriented programming paradigm
  • Subject (access control)
  • Subject, an element in the Resource Description Framework
• in music theory, the first melodic fragment of a fugue

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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

Library and Information Science

• Subject (documents) (subject classification; subject indexing; subject searching)

Others

Subject as a title or proper noun

• Subject (album) a 2003 album by Dwele

See also

• Subject matter (disambiguation)
• Subjective (disambiguation)