Category vs Classification - What's the difference?
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A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
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(mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
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* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
Classification is a related term of category.
As nouns the difference between category and classification
is that category is a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria while classification is the act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.category
English
(wikipedia category)Noun
(categories)- The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories'' of various types. Thus, words like ''boy'', ''girl'', ''man'', ''woman'', etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category''' of Nouns, whereas words like ''a'', ''the'', ''this'', and ''that'' are traditionally said to belong to the ' category of Determiners.
- This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category .
- I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.
- One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
- Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.
Synonyms
* (group to which items are assigned) class, family, genus, group, kingdom, order, phylum, race, tribe, type * See alsoDerived terms
* category mistake * category theory * conceptual category * perceptual category * subcategory * supercategoryExternal links
* *classification
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(en noun)citation, passage=On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a verfy fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.}}
- I’m using mathesis' — a universal science of '''measurement''' and '''order''' …
And there is also '''taxinomia''' a principle of ''''''classification'''''' and ordered '''tabulation'''.
Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
Western reason had entered the ' age of judgement .