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taxonomy | selflike |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective selflike is

exactly similar; corresponding.

taxonomy

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    selflike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Exactly similar; corresponding.
  • Of or pertaining to self or one's self; personal; individual; own.
  • *2005 , Thomas Seifrid, The word made self :
  • But this is precisely what Shpet does: he projects onto the "word-concept" selflike qualities that are by no means necessarily foreseen in Husserl, suggesting at once that our selves are structured like it and that it is a kind of self [...]
  • *2007 , William McNeill, The Time of Life: Heidegger and Ethos :
  • The specific capacities belong to and are regulated by the organism itself as a whole: it is the organism as a whole that appears to be constituted by this selflike nature.
  • Selfish; self-centered.
  • *2004 , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller, J. N. Findlay, Hegel's Philosophy of Nature :
  • Because the selflike (selbstische) universality, the subjective One (Bins) of the individuality, does not separate itself from the real particularization but is only submerged in it, [...]
  • *2007 , Jesaiah Ben-Aharon, The New Experience of the Supersensible :
  • The selflike being of man, becoming independent, now stands as an obstacle in the way of further development of the building process.