CONSTANT RELATIONS: CLASS VS CATEGORY —“One is the notion of category that add

CONSTANT RELATIONS: CLASS VS CATEGORY

—“One is the notion of category that addresses the building blocks of thought – which are the categories that are necessary for thinking, knowing, deciding, etc.”—

I don’t know what building blocks of thought are.

But as far as I know the process of precognitive, as well as cognitive categorization refers to identifying a set of constant relations. And as far as I know that’s all that can be said about them. This is the function of our physical layers of neurons: reducing sets of constant relations to increasing generalizations that increase the potential for associations, culminating the potential for intertemporal associations.

Again. As far as i know, this is all that can be or need be said. we do not need the word ‘category’, which in original translation means something on the order of ‘accusation’ or ‘assertion’, or ‘name’:

category (n.)

1580s, from Middle French catégorie, from Late Latin categoria, from Greek kategoria “accusation, prediction, category,” verbal noun from kategorein “to speak against; to accuse, assert, predicate,” from kata “down to” (or perhaps “against;” see cata-) + agoreuein “to harangue, to declaim (in the assembly),” from agora “public assembly” (see agora).

Original sense of “accuse” weakened to “assert, name” by the time Aristotle applied kategoria to his 10 classes of things that can be named.

—“category should be used by no-one who is not prepared to state (1) that he does not mean class, & (2) that he knows the difference between the two”—- [Fowler]

So I should probably be more cautious when I use the term, since class(invariant) is at least descriptive, and the relationship between class(invariant) and category (utilitarian or ‘discretionary’? ) is easier to understand, even if ‘set of constant relations’ is existential. So we can express constant relations as either a Class or a Category. I tend to think (and I should probably work on clarifying this a bit), but I use class for existential categories (science), and category for utilitarian (imagining, reasoning).