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Sorting the universe into boxes so your brain stops screaming at the chaos.
means To assign something to a category based on shared qualities, putting like with like.
from From Latin classis, the divisions Rome herded its citizens into by wealth, plus facere, to make — literally to make into ranks.
Roman rootsClassis ranked citizens by what they could afford.
LinnaeusHis 1735 system still sorts every living thing.
Secret labelClassified documents are simply sorted into restricted boxes.