http://blog.orenblog.org/2009/01/30/the-arbitrary-nature-of-classification/ This is where you say something clever Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:16:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.orenblog.org/2009/01/30/the-arbitrary-nature-of-classification/#comment-653 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:38:24 +0000 http://blog.orenblog.org/?p=2393#comment-653 http://books.google.com/books?id=HewJbnQmn1gC&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=bateson+misplaced+concreteness&source=bl&ots=uJqqS0LuIo&sig=_d_anD52GZevuyAH-l2Hq2N2TbU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR5,M1

]]> http://blog.orenblog.org/2009/01/30/the-arbitrary-nature-of-classification/#comment-652 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:59:23 +0000 http://blog.orenblog.org/?p=2393#comment-652 You probably noted this with your son as well, but the little folk are very good at coming up with seemingly random cataloging systems. The other night, Ray was putting away the chess pieces and it was clear to me that he was arranging them in some conscious manner. I asked him what he was doing, and he told me he was making sure that the friends were all together in the box. I would have gone with “black pieces on the left and white pieces on the right.” I never knew that black knights should go with white rooks because of friendship!

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