Classification vs Categorization - What's the difference?
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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.
* {{quote-book
, year=1937-1952
, author=Jorge Luis Borges
, title=Other Inquisitions
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
A group of things arranged by category; a classification.
The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
*2013 , (James Gleick), "Wikipedia's Women Problem", New York Review of Books , 29 Apr 2013:
*:It’s fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.
As nouns the difference between classification and categorization
is that 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 while categorization is a group of things arranged by category; a classification.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 .