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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kat-i-gawr-ee, -gohr-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæt ɪˌgɔr i, -ˌgoʊr i |
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Définition of categories
Origin :- 1580s, from Middle French catégorie, from Late Latin categoria, from Greek kategoria "accusation, prediction, category," verbal noun from kategorein "to speak against; to accuse, assert, predicate," from kata "down to" (or perhaps "against;" see cata-) + agoreuein "to harangue, to declaim (in the assembly)," from agora "public assembly" (see agora). Original sense of "accuse" weakened to "assert, name" by the time Aristotle applied kategoria to his 10 classes of things that can be named.
- category should be used by no-one who is not prepared to state (1) that he does not mean class, & (2) that he knows the difference between the two .... [Fowler]
- noun classification, type
- The first of Plato's categories or elements is the infinite.
- Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato
- We do not confuse the parts of speech with the categories of Logic.
- Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
- If you mean to include me in either of these categories, sir, will you please to say which?
- Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
- Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- These were the two categories that comprehended all her theory.
- Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- The convicts are divided into three categories: good, middling, and bad.
- Extract from : « Criminal Man » by Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
- The observer's nothing without his categories, his types and varieties.
- Extract from : « The Tragic Muse » by Henry James
- The Army, also troubled by the categories, requested they be defined.
- Extract from : « Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 » by Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.
- Now, I take as my creed the fruitful dictum: Think in other categories.
- Extract from : « Revenge » by Arthur Porges
- Quality is one of the nine categories of accident, and God has no accidents.
- Extract from : « A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy » by Isaac Husik
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