Questions tagged [classification]

When I see a cat, I consider it a cat in my head even though it is technically also a four legged animal, an animal, a pet, a cute animal, etc. Despite belonging to many of these classes, there’s one that jumps out at me when I see a cat: the…

Maybe people have asked this before - it seems a fairly basic question to ask, in a similar vein to a child's chain of "Why?" questions. If you ask me "What is a chair?", I respond that it is an item of furniture. If you then ask "What is an item of…

Goethe said that, although a „natural system is a contradictory expression”, provided that the distinction (in this system) is really substantial, its items will compare themselves. Does anybody here know a science, a theory or a classification…