Classification and Distribution
The reason there are so many different classifications. of things in the world is that humans in the past (and most humans still today) did not have the means to express what is essentially a distribution on a multidimensional space. It may be because humans in the past (and most humans still today) did not have the means to express what is essentially distribution in multidimensional space.
Even if the same data is hierarchical clustering, different methods and metrics produce different (Christmas) trees.
relevance
Resolution Stage
Distribution over an essentially multidimensional space
sense vector
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I thought, "liberal arts and sciences doesn't fit the term, natural history, Bacon classified it into natural history and natural philosophy, history, Kitaro Nishida classified the disciplines including history, Plato's classification, dialectics, physics, ethics," and so on.
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