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categorist

noun

Etymology

From category + -ist.

  1. derived from κατηγορία — “head of predicables”
  2. derived from catēgoria — “class of predicables”
  3. derived from categorie
  4. derived from catégorie
  5. suffixed as categorist — “category + ist”

Definitions

  1. Someone who categorizes.

    • Strictly speaking, Swedenborg’s revelation is a confounding of planes,—a capital offence in so learned a categorist.
    • A man—and for Pinter the male now tends to become the categorist — is baffled by the presence of a filthy old matchseller who stands at the bottom of the lane near his house daily.
    • For categorists, general principles 'express the essential qualities of juridical truth itself, in short of Law'.

  2. A mathematician who specializes in category theory.

    • The concept of path of arrows is what the categorist uses instead of the concept of word or string of symbols.
    • This mapping is regarded by the categorist as an inclusion, even though in fact it may change what the integer really is.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for categorist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA