Subject matter, in general, is anything which can be content for some theory.
Subject matter may refer to:
- Patentable subject matter (or statutory subject matter), defining whether patent protection is available
- Subject-matter jurisdiction, determining the kinds of claims or disputes over which a court has jurisdiction
- Subject-matter expert, an expert in a particular area
- Subject matter expert Turing test, a variation of the Turing test where a computer system attempts to replicate an expert in a given field
Famous quotes containing the words subject and/or matter:
“The entire construct of the “medical model” of “mental illness”Mwhat is it but an analogy? Between physical medicine and psychiatry: the mind is said to be subject to disease in the same manner as the body. But whereas in physical medicine there are verifiable physiological proofs—in damaged or affected tissue, bacteria, inflammation, cellular irregularity—in mental illness alleged socially unacceptable behavior is taken as a symptom, even as proof, of pathology.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“... what is especially insufferable in a woman is a restless, bold, domineering manner, for this manner goes against nature.... [ellipsis in source] No matter what her worth, no matter that she never forgets that she could be a man by virtue of her superiority of mind and the force of her will, on the outside she must be a woman! She must present herself as that creature made to please, to love to seek support, that being who is inferior to man and who approaches the angels.”
—Elisabeth-Felicite Bayle-Mouillard (1796–1865)