What does seem, however, to be shown by scientific experience is this: that where an observed uniformity fails, some wider uniformity can be found, embracing more circumstances, and subsuming both the successes and the failures of the previous uniformity.
"Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy"
Bertrand Russell
We are constantly in daily life subsuming particulars under known universals in this way.
"Logic, Inductive and Deductive"
William Minto
When we say that every force in nature is to be thought of as Will, we are subsuming an unknown under a known.
"Schopenhauer"
Thomas Whittaker