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The subject matter of a science is that about which its proper attributes are investigated.
A science's subject matter is the central entity or field under investigation. Its proper attributes are characteristics related to that subject in the way the discipline investigates. Here “proper” is technical, not merely “inborn.”
Identifying the subject of a discipline clarifies what its characteristic questions concern and what falls outside its proper investigation.