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  • noun That which is not a subject.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ subject

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Examples

  • And it continues to be a nonsubject with all the front-runners seeking the nomination for president.

    The Oil May Be There, Exploiting It Is Hard 2008

  • So it follows necessarily from what has been said above that there are only three kinds of change, that from subject to subject, that from subject to non-subject, and that from non-subject to subject: for the fourth conceivable kind, that from non-subject to nonsubject, is not change, as in that case there is no opposition either of contraries or of contradictories.

    Physics Aristotle 2002

  • ‘after’ (meta) something else, that is to say something earlier and something later-that which changes must change in one of four ways: from subject to subject, from subject to nonsubject, from non-subject to subject, or from non-subject to non-subject, where by ‘subject’ I mean what is affirmatively expressed.

    Physics Aristotle 2002

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