7 ideas
10496 | Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen] |
10497 | In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen] |
10495 | Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
10498 | Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions [Ellen] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |