Theory of Categories : Key Instruments of Human Understanding

Anthem Press

Theory of CategoriesKey Instruments of Human Understanding\nAuthor(s): Dr. Patrick Grim, Dr. Nicholas Rescher\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Anthem Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Anthem Press\nISBN-13: 9781839988134, 978-1839988134\nSynopsis\nCategorization is an essential and unavoidable instrumentality for conceptually navigating a worldindeed for being able to conceptualize a world to be navigated. Classification is a pivotal instrument for scientific systemization,featured as a basis for the philosophical understanding of reality since Aristotle,but classificatory concepts of sorts, types and natural kinds inevitably pervade our understanding of ourselves and our position in the social as well as the natural world at all levels. The authors argue that the character, purpose-, context-, and culture-relativity of categories and categorization have been widely misunderstoodthat standard philosophical views are substantially correct in some respects but markedly mistaken in others. T.