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Taxonomy vs Daimon - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and daimon

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while daimon is a tutelary spirit that guides a person; a genius; a lar.

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

    daimon

    English

    Noun

    (tutelary deity) (en noun)
  • A tutelary spirit that guides a person; a genius; a lar.
  • * 1891, Walter James Hoffman, The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
  • The object which first appears is adopted as the personal mystery, guardian spirit, or tutelary daimon of the entranced, and is never mentioned by him without first making a sacrifice.
  • * 1900, , Over the Teacups
  • All at once, my daimon —that other Me over whom I button my waistcoat when I button it over my own person—put it into my head to look up the story of Madame Saqui.
  • * 1960, Charles I. Glicksberg, Norman Mailer: The Angry Young Novelist in America'', in ''Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature , vol. 1, no. 1
  • He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.27:
  • *:Marcus Aurelius is persuaded that God gives every man a special daimon as his guide – a belief which reappears in the Christian guardian angel.
  • Derived terms

    * daimonic

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary, second edition.

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