Difference between revisions of "Fallacies Of Philosophy"
From Critiques Of Libertarianism
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=== Presuming that clear and sharp categories can be used as a starting point. === | === Presuming that clear and sharp categories can be used as a starting point. === | ||
| − | + | There is a science of categorization called cladistics, but philosophers generally seem ignorant of it. | |
| − | + | In Jorge Luis Borges essay "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins", there is a [[wikipedia:Those_that_belong_to_the_Emperor|classification of animals from an apocryphal Chinese encyclopedia]]. The categories include: | |
# those that belong to the Emperor, | # those that belong to the Emperor, | ||
# embalmed ones, | # embalmed ones, | ||
