%% To save images locally, enable the 'Enable Cover Image Save' option in the settings and enter as follows: %% ![[00 meta/attachments/Theory of Categories.jpg|150]] # Theory of Categories Rescher, Nicholas, and Patrick Grim. _Theory of Categories: Key Instruments of Human Understanding_. London, New York: Anthem Press, 2023. [online](http://zotero.org/users/10778753/items/W8BUVFRM) [pdfZoteroLink]([Rescher and Grim - 2023 - Theory of categories key instruments of human und.pdf](zotero://select/library/items/6S2UECE5)) [local](00%20meta/templates/zotero/zotero://select/library/items/W8BUVFRM.md) [pdf](file:///Users/clayturner/Zotero/storage/6S2UECE5/Rescher%20and%20Grim%20-%202023%20-%20Theory%20of%20categories%20key%20instruments%20of%20human%20und.pdf) [ZoteroTags] [All] [Abstract] "This book offers a revisionist approach to categories, arguing that the standard philosophical approach is substantially correct in some respects, but markedly mistaken in others. The result is a distinctly pragmatic approach to categories and categorization, with implications regarding philosophical problematic and paradox in philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of science, social philosophy and ethics"-- ### Index start-date:: 2023-01-01 end-date:: page-no:: 8 ### Connections comment:: ### Note %% begin annotations %% ### Imported on 2024-06-08 7:59 pm Reality is a manifold of variation; the variety, diversity, and complexity the world affords is virtually endless: individually and collectively, its constituents exhibit an ever-proliferating array of features and characteristics. But the human mind, though also vastly complex, cannot keep in step. Its focus has to be not in the endless detail of real individuality, but in its patterns and regularities. The world deals in the variant detail of specifics, while the mind has little choice but to address this via types and in kinds. Reality proliferates, the mind categorizes, in effect endeavoring to deal with an analog Reality by digital means. [(p. 8)](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/6S2UECE5?page=8&annotation=2PB82LXY) All cognition beyond a dull mental hum demands categorization. [(p. 8)](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/6S2UECE5?page=8&annotation=W8IRN4YF) ![[00 meta/attachments/rescherTheoryCategoriesKey2023/image-11-x15-y109.png]] %% end annotations %% %% Import Date: 2024-06-08T20:03:52.009-04:00 %%