Thursday, October 7, 2010

CLASSIFICATION

-distinction, identification, and organization of two or more items or object.

Plato's theory of Universals

  1. universalia in re- universals in the thing
  2. universalia ante rem- universalia before the things
  3. universalia post rem- universalia after the things

Four different types of similarity

  • genetic similarity
  • structural similarity
  • functional similarity
  • apparent similarity

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