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Dichopetala --- Katydids --- Tettigoniidae --- Classification --- Classification --- Classification
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Birds --- -Classification
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Eric Funkhouser uncovers a logical structure that is common to many, if not all, classificatory systems or taxonomies. Every conceptual scheme--including the sciences, mathematics, and ethics--classifies things into kinds. Given their ubiquity across theoretical contexts, we would benefit from understanding the nature of such kinds. Significantly, most conceptual schemes posit kinds that vary in their degree of specificity. Species-genus taxonomies provide us with familiar examples, with the species classification being more specific than the genus classification. This book instead focuses on adjectival kinds--classifications picked out by kind-terms like "mass," "shape," or "belief," to give but a few examples.Some adjectival kinds specify others--for example, scarlet is a specific kind of red. This is an instance of the determinate-determinable relation. One of the fundamental claims of this book is that studying the determination relation provides deep insight into the essences of adjectival kinds and their instances (properties). The determination relation is found to contain two components, which are employed to structure kinds at the same level of abstraction into property spaces. In turn, these property space models lead to a theory for individuating properties, which has profound consequences when it comes to reduction, autonomy, and causation.Determination relations are contrasted with realization relations, the latter being the favored way of understanding how the mental and the physical are related. Particular attention is given to the distinction between multiple realizability and multiple determination, and it is argued that determination and realization are mutually exclusive relations. This has been overlooked in many discussions of multiple realizability, but it is central to maintaining the connection between multiple realizability and autonomy. The claim that multiple realizability entails various senses of autonomy is defended from various reductionist challenges. These theories of determination and realization ultimately provide general standards for establishing the autonomy of the special sciences or, conversely, their reduction.
Logic --- Metaphysics --- Classification --- Philosophy --- Classification - Philosophy
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Following on from the first edition of this book, the second edition fills the gap between more complex theoretical texts and those books with a purely practical approach. The book looks at major library classification schemes in use in Europe, UK and the USA, and includes practical exercises to demonstrate their application. Importantly, classifying electronic resources is also discussed. Classification in Theory and Practice aims to demystify a very complex subject, and to provide a sound theoretical underpinning, together with practical advice and development of practical skills. Chapters
Classification. --- Knowledge, Classification of --- Information organization
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La 4e de couverture indique : "Ce livre s'adresse à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la botanique descriptive, aux étudiants en sciences biologiques, sciences pharmaceutiques, bio-ingénierie, mais aussi aux professionnels de la biodiversité ou de l’exploitation végétale, sans oublier les naturalistes. Les principales familles des Plantes à fleurs d’Europe, de même que quelques familles exotiques importantes, sont caractérisées et abondamment illustrées, dans une approche consensuelle entre une classification traditionnelle qui a marqué plus de deux siècles de botanique et les récents fondements moléculaires qui annoncent un nouvel éclairage de la systématique botanique. C’est donc une évocation des classifications d’hier et de demain pour une utilisation aujourd’hui. Et si la systématique semble une science abstraite, on n’oubliera pas que le nombre d’espèces végétales répertoriées et exploitées par l’Homme est considérable: les propriétés et les usages des principales d’entre elles sont évoqués succinctement dans cet ouvrage, ouvrant la voie vers une botanique utilitaire."
Angiosperms --- Plants --- classification --- Europe --- Identification --- Angiospermes --- Plantes --- Magnoliopsida --- Classification --- Identification. --- classification. --- Angiosperms - Europe --- Plants - classification - Europe
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The notion of ‘genre’ has established itself as a key concept in many disciplines and fields as a means of describing social action and/or recurring patterns of form. Recent social and technological changes are driving the emergence of new genres, the evolution of traditional ones as well as variation within them. In this volume a range of approaches addressing the evolution of genre are presented. Many draw on corpus analysis of the lexicogrammatical features employed in the communicative artefacts addressed; several extend traditional corpus analysis to include non-linguistic or extra-linguistic features involved in multimodal communication. Connections with social theories are discussed, as is the notion of families or groups of genres co-existing within broader constellations. Genres are examined in detail for their linguistic and non-linguistic realisations and forms of expression across related genres and within the ‘same’ genre when subjected to differing social or medial constraints or possibilities. In all cases, we see how genre continues to function as an effective tool for following communication as it, its contexts of use, and its social functions evolve.
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Natural history --- Phylogeny --- Système (philosophie) --- Sciences naturelles --- Phylogénie --- Classification --- Classification.
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Fossil fuels --- Mines and mineral resources --- Classification --- Classification
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Comparative accounting --- Financial statements. --- Classification.
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Animals. --- Tiere (Zoologie) --- Animals -- Classification.
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