Category

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Category, plural categories, may refer to:

General uses

  • Classification, the general act of allocating things to classes/categories

Philosophy

  • Category of being
  • Categories (Aristotle)
  • Category (Kant)
  • Categories (Peirce)
  • Category (Vaisheshika)
  • Stoic categories
  • Category mistake

Science

  • Cognitive categorization, categories in cognitive science
  • Statistical classification, statistical methods used to effect classification/categorization

Mathematics

  • Category (mathematics), a structure consisting of objects and arrows
  • Category (topology), in the context of Baire spaces
  • Lusternik–Schnirelmann category, sometimes called LS-category or simply category
  • Categorical data, in statistics

Linguistics

  • Lexical category, a part of speech such as noun, preposition, etc.
  • Syntactic category, a similar concept which can also include phrasal categories
  • Grammatical category, a grammatical feature such as tense, gender, etc.

Other

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Category
  • Categorical (disambiguation)
  • Category 1 (disambiguation)
  • Category 2 (disambiguation)
  • Category 3 (disambiguation)
  • Category 4 (disambiguation)
  • Category 5 (disambiguation)
  • Category 6 (disambiguation)
  • Category 7: The End of the World
  • Category A (disambiguation)
  • Category B (disambiguation)
  • Category C (disambiguation)
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