I like to see categories as fish nets we use to capture ideas. We classify things into categories like individuals, nation or species, and of course it is all arbitrary and doesn't correspond to anything in the real world. But categories still form useful chunks we can use to make sense of the world. Furthermore, here is a fun exercise: introduce arbitrary
The two-headed bacterium
The two-headed bacterium
The two-headed bacterium
I like to see categories as fish nets we use to capture ideas. We classify things into categories like individuals, nation or species, and of course it is all arbitrary and doesn't correspond to anything in the real world. But categories still form useful chunks we can use to make sense of the world. Furthermore, here is a fun exercise: introduce arbitrary