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  1. Category
    [Kant] In Kant`s philosophy, a category is a pure concept of the understanding. A Kantian category is a characteristic of the appearance of any object in general, before it has been experienced. Kant wrote that "They are concepts of an object in general…." Kant also wrote that "…pure cо...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_(Kant)

  2. category
    A group of similar products; such as detergents, paper goods, etc.
    Found op http://www.fmi.org/facts_figs/glossary_search.cfm

  3. category
    [Noun] A class or group of similar things.
    Example: The dog was entered in the category for small pets.

    Found op http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary/

  4. category
    [n] - a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=category

  5. Category
    Two or more concepts having one or more attributes or relationships held in common, such that the commonality may itself become conceptualised and named. Thus the manifest physical and behavioural similarities between sparrows, eagles, and ducks would, by the process of abstraction, soon give rise t...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20408

  6. category
    In philosophy, a fundamental concept applied to being that cannot be reduced to anything more elementary. Aristotle listed ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time,...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  7. Category
    A group of closely related chemicals whose physicochemical, ecotoxicological or toxicological properties follow a regular pattern because of structural similarity.
    Found op http://www.chemicalglossary.net/definition/430-Category

  8. Category
    A group of products that satisfy a consumer need (e.g fresh produce)
    Found op http://www.igd.com/index.html?id=1&fid=5&sid=43&tid=58&cid=507

  9. Category
    Cat'e·go·ry noun ; plural Categories . [ Latin categoria , Greek ..., from ... to accuse, affirm, predicate; ... down, against + ... to harrangue, assert, from ... assembly.] 1. (Logic.) One of the highest classes to...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/36

  10. Category
    • (n.) Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. • (n.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament....
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/category/

  11. category
    (from the article `mathematics`) ...Mac Lane, also of the United States, and Eilenberg extended this axiomatic approach until many types of mathematical structures were presented in ... ...calculus is capable of grounding mathematics, or at least of doing so in as straightforward a manner as does ZF...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/36

  12. category
    in logic, a term used to denote the several most general or highest types of thought forms or entities, or to denote any distinction such that, if a ... [9 related articles]
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  1. category
    category 1. A class or division in a scheme of classification. 2. In logic, any of the various basic concepts into which all knowledge can be classified.
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/388/3

  2. Category
    [mathematics] In mathematics, a category is an algebraic structure that comprises "objects" that are linked by "arrows". A category has two basic properties: the ability to compose the arrows associatively and the existence of an identity arrow for each object. A simple example is the catego...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_(mathematics)

  3. Category
    Any rank within the classification hierarchy, e.g., family, subfamily, subspecies.
    Found op http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/glossary.htm

  4. category
    1. a collection of things sharing a common attribute
    2. a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme

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  5. category
    the ranking of a hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, used by the U.S. National Weather Service. A somewhat different scale of categories is used for tropical cyclones by the Australian Bureau of Meterology.
    Found op http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictC.html

  6. category
    category, in taxonomy: see classification.
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0911527.html

  7. category
    category, philosophical term that literally means predication or assertion. It was first used by Aristotle, whose 10 categories formed a list of all the ways in which assertions can be made of a subject. Immanuel Kant's 12 categories constitute an exhaustive list of the a priori forms through which ...
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0810847.html

  8. Category
    (Gr. kategoria) In Aristotle's logic (1) the predicate of a proposition; (2) one of the ultimate modes of being that may be asserted in predication, viz.: substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, position, state, action, passion. -- G.R.M. (in Kant) Any of twelve forms or relating princi...
    Found op http://www.ditext.com/runes/c.html

  9. Category
    In logic, a category, or predicament, is an assemblage of all the beings contained under any genus or kind ranged in order. The ancients, following Aristotle, held that all beings or objects of thought may be referred to ten categories: quantity, quality, relation, action, passion, time, place, situ...
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AC.HTM

  10. category
    In philosophy, a fundamental concept applied to being that cannot be reduced to anything more elementary. Aristotle listed ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, position, state, action, and passion
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0006594.html

  11. category
    (theory) A category K is a collection of objects, obj(K), and a collection of morphisms (or 'arrows'), mor(K) such that 1. Each morphism f has a 'typing' on a pair of objects A, B written f:A-)B. This is read 'f is a morphism from A to B'. A is the 'source' or 'domain' of f and B is its 'target' or...
    Found op http://foldoc.org/category

  12. Category
    LME members are divided into five categories – Ring Dealing, ABCM, Associate Trade Clearing, Associate Broker and Associate Trade.
    Found op http://www.metalbulletin.com/Glossary.html

  13. category
    1) 'jeopardy!' choice 2) A group of similar products 3) Accumulation 4) Aggregation 5) Assemblage 6) Class 7) Collection 8) Family
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/category/1

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