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The box you build so reality fits neatly, then reality refuses to comply.
means A class or group that things get sorted into based on shared characteristics.
from From Greek 'katēgoria,' meaning 'accusation' or 'statement,' from 'katēgorein,' to speak against or assert something of someone — literally 'to speak' (agoreuein, related to agora, the public marketplace or assembly) 'against/down' (kata-). Aristotle took this courtroom-flavored word and repurposed it for his logical system, using 'categories' to mean the most basic things you can predicate, or 'assert,' about an object — what it is, how much, where, and so on. So the word started as an act of accusing someone in public and ended up as the filing system of Western thought.
- origin
- Greek kategoria originally meant a public accusation
- math use
- category theory studies the maps, not the boxes
- irony
- platypus exists specifically to mock your taxonomy
- netflix trick
- personalized categories are just one-row algorithms in disguise