Questions tagged [categorization]
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Are there any pairs of things that are fully irrelevant to each other?
Alternatively, does relevance come in degrees or amounts, and if so, can that measure ever be reduced to zero between two topics?
I had hoped to explain this question in terms of relevance logic, but ...
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Categorizing with metaphor, analogy, generalization, and abstraction
Are two concepts metaphor/analogy equivalent to generalization/abstraction.
If yes how? Give me some examples
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How to understand "type-which-corresponds-to"?
In the comment on How do we define this?, user g s wrote a deleted comment indicating that things could be defined using "type-which-corresponds-to" (exact quote from memory). They followed ...
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Where does the canon event theory of identity formation come from?
There is an idea in the new Spider-man movie Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, where spider-men through different dimensions have to deal with inter-dimensional problems. In it, one critical part ...
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"Too simple to be simple" (a phrase in category theory) and the concept of absurdity
In category theory as practiced, there is this phrase "generalized abstract nonsense" (GAN), which is often used to cover sections of a derivation/judgment(?) that the audience is meant to ...
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What is metaphysics in relation to language?
What is metaphysics in relation to language? Is language a subset of metaphysics, or is metaphysics a subset of language, and if not what is language or metaphysics in relation to the other, and why ...
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What is the relationship between categorization and structuralism? [closed]
I have a couple questions:
Does the act of categorization or classification always reflect a structuralist mind?
Like wise, does the act of de-categorization (or re-categorization) reflect a post-...
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Why is conjunction interposed with intersection instead of union?
My philosophical background going into set theory was heavily laden with Kantian and neo-Kantian elements, so one of my essential premises was read off the following passage from the first Critique [...
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Can something be both a type and a token?
I wonder, can something be both a type and a token (in reference to the type-token distinction in philosophy)? For example, an individual dog is a token of the type of dog, but the type of dog is ...
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Why is everything in a different category despite their similar origins?
Assuming a non-religious stance, we are made of the atoms that make up everything else in the universe. Why are we categorized as humans, and not the stars that existed billions of years ago and ...
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Why can one abstract (prescind) space from color but not color from space? (from C. S. Peirce's article "On a New List of Categories")
In Peirce's paper New List why is possible to prescind (i.e. abstract) space from color but not color from space?
Peirce mentions three types of abstraction, the relevant one being called Prescission (...
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Is an element being in multiple categories a valid classic category?
I was going through the categorization article in Wikipedia and happened to read this line:
In the classical view, categories need to be clearly defined, mutually exclusive and collectively ...
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If I delete and replace a character in a computer document, to what extent is it the same character?
This is a question partly about philosophical terminology and categorisation as well as existence.
Suppose I type the random string "janwekxq" into a Word document. I then accidentally ...
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Are there two types of scientific theories (one materialistic and one mathematical)?
Until recently, I was assured, for years, that there is only one way for a theory to be "scientific" (my definition):
An hypothesis to solve a defined practical problem, which must be falsifiable;A ...
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How/when can categorization of things be correct?
How/when can categorization of things be correct? Meaning just "categorization" in general.
It's intuitive that categorization is a "primitive" cognitive and linguistic phenomenon. Without ...
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Why am I myself rather than someone else?
Why am I myself rather than someone else?
I think I read something like this in an encyclopedia; that it's a question in philosophy.
Not asking what makes me myself, my body, psychology, and ...
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Is there a branch of philosophy that deals with the concept of classification?
Is there a branch of philosophy that deals with the concept of classification? I guess that perhaps it's metaphysics or ontology - they are the nearest things I can think of, but I'm not really sure.
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