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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