4.1 To Think, We Must Split up the World: A History of 20th Century Theories of Categorization

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"Some of our most common and comforting groups no longer exist if classifications must be based on cladograms [evolutionary branching diagrams] .... I regret to report that there is surely no such thing as a fish.”

-“What, If Anything, is a Zebra?” by Stephen Jay Gould, 1983

"To change the concept of category itself is to change our understanding of the world.”

-Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, by George Lakoff, 1987

Sources: https://old.reddit.com/r/DilettanteryPodcast/comments/zcz9rd/41_to_think_we_must_split_up_the_world_a_history/?