Absorption
Absorption
one of the great leading principles of Brahmanism. It is claimed that the last and highest kind of future after which every good man ought to aim is that his soul may be absorbed in the essence of Brahm, the supreme spirit. For a full discussion of this subject, SEE NIRVANA.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Absorption
The name law of absorption is given to either of the two dually related theorems of the propositional calculus,
[p ? pq] = p, p[p ? q] = p,
or either of the two corresponding dually related theorems of the algebra of classes,
a ? (a n b) = a, a n (a ? b) = a.
Any valid inference of the propositional calculus which amounts to replacing A ? AB by A, or A[A ? B] by A, or any valid inference of the algebra of classes which amounts to replacing
A ? (A n B) by A, or A n (A ? B) by A,
is called absorption.
Whitehead and Russell (Principia Mathematica) give the name law of absorption to theorem of the propositional calculus,
[p ? q] = [p = pq].
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