Meaning of oversum | Babel Free

Definitions

A whole that is more than the sum of its parts; superaddition.

Examples

“The tradition consists in understanding a politically active unit as an oversum (that is, a super-additive entity): The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”

“It follows from this counterbalance of majority rule⟳ and inalienable absolutes within a given society that the latter is ordered according to the oversum principle: The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”

“Democracy requires an oversum, a koiné, a res publica, a Genossenschaft, a commonwealth, a League such as the Iroquois, a Tewa-Pueblo, that is, an entity of which the citizens are members with membership duties and rights.”

“The Saxonian tradition does not know⟳ or rejects the cooperative, the oversum, or superaddition.”

“Thus SB is an over-sum effect.”

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