About The Word Category
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What's The Definition Of Category?
[n] a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
[n] a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" Synonyms | Synonyms for Category: class | family Related Terms | Find terms related to Category: area | blood | bracket | branch | caste | clan | class | classification | department | division | estate | grade | group | grouping | head | heading | kin | kind | label | league | level | list | listing | order | pigeonhole | position | predicament | race | rank | ranking | rating | rubric | section | sector | sept | set | sort | sphere | station | status | strain | stratum | subdivision | subgroup | suborder | tier | title | type | variety See Also | accumulation | aggregation | assemblage | class Diplopoda | class Larvacea | class Myriapoda | collection | concept | conception | conjugation | construct | declension | denomination | Diplopoda | form | grammatical category | kind | Larvacea | Malacostraca | Myriapoda | paradigm | pigeonhole | rubric | sex | sort | stamp | subclass Malacostraca | substitution class | superphylum | syntactic category | variety | way Category In Webster's Dictionary \Cat"e*go*ry\, n.; pl. {Categories}. [L. categoria, Gr.
?, fr. ? to accuse, affirm, predicate; ? down, against + ? to
harrangue, assert, fr. ? assembly.]
1. (Logic.) One of the highest classes to which the objects
of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they
can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable
conception; a predicament.
The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek
word, the latter its literal translation in the
Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his
followers as an enumeration of all things capable of
being named; an enumeration by the summa genera
i.e., the most extensive classes into which things
could be distributed. --J. S. Mill.
2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are
both in the same category.
There is in modern literature a whole class of
writers standing within the same category. --De
Quincey.
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