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4.1 To Think, We Must Split up the World: A History of 20th Century Theories of Categorization
Manage episode 348969541 series 2938738
"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
48 episodes
Manage episode 348969541 series 2938738
"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
48 episodes
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