Taxonomy vs Alchemy - What's the difference?
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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.
(label) The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.
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, title= (label) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and alchemy
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while alchemy is (label) the ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee 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 * ontologyalchemy
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(wikipedia alchemy)Noun
Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy .}}
