Taxonomy vs Witcraft - What's the difference?
taxonomy | witcraft |
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.
Art or skill of the mind; mental skill; contrivance; invention; the art of wit.
* 1996 , Michael Billig, Arguing and thinking: a rhetorical approach to social psychology :
The art of reasoning; logic.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and witcraft
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while witcraft is art or skill of the mind; mental skill; contrivance; invention; the art of wit.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 * ontologywitcraft
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(-)- In its pure form, witcraft' can be seen as a democratic art. because it does not depend upon technical expertise. Within an ideal context of pure ' witcraft , the powerful and the powerless meet upon equal terms.
- It argues that a rhetorical approach maintains space for agency on the behalf of employees (through the witcraft of argument) ...'' — Gillian Symon, ''Developing the Political Perspective on Technological Change Through Rhetorical Analysis , Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1., 2008