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- noun Plural form of
category .
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Examples
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That the books are grouped into certain categories is unknown to them.
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I'm slowly adding tags to my older posts, and I'll be putting the label categories in the sidebar.
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I'm slowly adding tags to my older posts, and I'll be putting the label categories in the sidebar.
Archive 2006-12-01 Peggy 2006
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We do try promote reading on this site, if the number of book-related posts versus other categories is any indication.
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That the categories of heterosexuality and homosexuality did not exist in Ancient Greece does not, of course, mean that something like homosexuality and heterosexuality did not exist, although the absence of the categories is a kind of evidence.
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
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Because people are used to search engine keywords and phrases, as am I, changing my thinking to one word categories is tough.
The Problems With Tags and Tagging « Lorelle on WordPress 2005
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It was an enterprise worthy of an acute thinker like Aristotle to try to discover these fundamental concepts; but as he had no guiding principle he merely picked them up as they occurred to him, and at first gathered up ten of them, which he called categories or predicaments.
Aristotle's Categories Studtmann, Paul 2007
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So, again, the distribution of things into certain tribes, which we call categories or predicaments, are but cautions against the confusion of definitions and divisions.
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Destitute, however, of any guiding principle, he picked them up just as they occurred to him, and at first hunted out ten, which he called categories (predicaments).
Blowing Hot and Cold Coetzee, J.M. 1997
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Destitute, however, of any guiding principle, he picked them up just as they occurred to him, and at first hunted out ten, which he called categories (predicaments).
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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