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All the ideas for 'Purifications (frags)', 'Anthropological Studies of Classification' and 'on Goodman's 'Ways of Worldmaking''

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states [Quine]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories

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Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen]

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In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

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Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism

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Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions [Ellen]