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      The (Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai; Latin Categoriae or Praedicamenta) a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition.
      On May 14, 1867, the 27–year-old Charles Sanders Peirce, who eventually founded pragmatism, presented a paper entitled "On a New List of Categories" to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
      a word game where players attempt to list words that fit into particular categories, all starting with the same letter.
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      kategoriacategor- · Greek · category, predication
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