In message <003801c09e50$98fd8e20$4a2c893e@oemcomputer> on Sat, 24 Feb
2001, David Atkinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote
>Can anyone provide me with a reference(s) to the idea that classification
>and taxonomy, grouping like with like, etc., is a fundamental aspect of
>human intelligence? Has anyone actually written about this?
One paper is
Chaos, classification, and intelligence / David V. Newman
September 24, 1998
<http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~newman/research/cci.html>
>Has anyone actually written about this? Presumably the
>idea is what lies behind Borges' story about the imperial Chinese
>classification of animals, for example (anyone know the title of the story
>offhand?)
The title of the essay is "The analytical language of John Wilkins".
The full text can be found at (among other places)
<http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.html>
Leonard Will
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