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A list that flatters itself into looking like knowledge.
means A complete, organized list of items — often goods, books, or works — arranged so you can find a specific thing within the whole.
from From Greek 'katalogos' — 'kata' (down, thoroughly) plus 'legein' (to say, count, reckon). It passed through Latin and French into English, carrying the sense of a careful, down-to-the-last-item reckoning — a counting-off, rather than a mere pile.
- origin
- Greek kata logos, to reckon down
- spelling split
- British keeps the -ue, Americans dropped it
- ikea effect
- once sold more copies than the bible yearly
- raisonne
- art world version verifies a whole artist's output