What is "classifications"

Usage examples of "classifications".

This case seems to me well to illustrate the spirit with which our classifications are sometimes necessarily founded.

We can see why characters derived from the embryo should be of equal importance with those derived from the adult, for our classifications of course include all ages of each species.

Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities.

But since classifications never started as energy-giving affairs, they always remain like dead logs.

As every human being on this earth would do, those shamans made endless classifications of different types of this energy that has awareness.

These classifications based on experience permeate our adult life, how we perceive and what we remember, in ways that we all recognize, though - except for the novelists and filmmakers amongst us - we may find it hard to articulate them.

But what sorts of classifications should we seek, and what sort of evidence might be considered helpful?

All these are classifications that this chapter has already discussed.

There is no reason why such different classifications should each involve the same region of the brain or even the same sets of cells, though presumably there must be some communication between them.

Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today.

Unfortunately these new classifications were not uniformly applied from nation to nation.

Throughout Utopia there is, of course, no other than provisional classifications, since every being is regarded as finally unique, but for political and social purposes things have long rested upon a classification of temperaments, which attends mainly to differences in the range and quality and character of the individual imagination.

For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.

What few letters were here were all in the same vein: questions about classifications and identifications, tiffs with other scientists over various arcane subjects.

They were mostly notes from the long-dead curator on various odd subjects, written in a fanatically small hand: lists of classifications of plants and animals, drawings of various flowers, some quite good.