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The original control freak's hobby: drawing lines until reality fits in boxes.
means The act of sorting things into named groups or categories according to shared traits, so the messy world becomes organized and findable.
from From Latin classis, a 'class' or division — originally one of the property-based ranks into which Roman citizens were grouped for census and military duty. Add facere, 'to make,' and you get the sense of 'making classes.' The word entered English by way of French in the 18th century, just as naturalists were busy fitting all of creation into kingdoms, orders, and species.
- Linnaeus flex
- He once classified humans as four-colored 'varieties'
- platypus problem
- Scientists argued for decades over its taxonomic slot
- pluto demotion
- One reclassification erased a planet in 2006
- library origin
- Dewey ranked all knowledge into ten neat decimals
- tomato verdict
- US Supreme Court legally classified it a vegetable