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Taxonomy vs Heterotopia - What's the difference?

taxonomy | heterotopia |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and heterotopia

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while heterotopia is (pathology) normal tissue (or an organ) present at an abnormal part of the body.

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

    heterotopia

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia heterotopia)
  • (pathology) Normal tissue (or an organ) present at an abnormal part of the body
  • (ecology) The occurrence of an organism in a number of different habitats
  • (philosophy) A type of utopia that actually exists in a society
  • * 2002 , James W Flanagan, David M Gunn, Paula M McNutt, "Imagining" biblical worlds
  • For Foucault, heterotopias are not imagined places but real places that almost delete themselves from public consciousness. They are null sites in awareness, yet inevitable and vital to the construction of space.