Subsumption; or, The Hermeneutics of Plurality.

Plurality. In its direct sense, it merely describes a multitude of something. Four apples, twenty people, forty horses. Those multiple things then become a singular again; a batch, a council, a herd. In the context of the human consciousness, it is the opposite of an individualistic, 'one body, one mind' perception of the self. Plurality is to be made up of multiple parts that make up the whole.…