categorist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
categorist (plural categorists)
- Someone who categorizes.
- Synonym: categorizer
- 1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Swedenborg; or, the Mystic”, in Representative Men:
- Strictly speaking, Swedenborg’s revelation is a confounding of planes,—a capital offence in so learned a categorist.
- 1971, Walter Kerr, God on the Gymnasium Floor, and Other Theatrical Adventures, page 150:
- 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.
- 2008, Andrew D. Mitchell, Legal Principles in WTO Disputes:
- For categorists, general principles 'express the essential qualities of juridical truth itself, in short of Law'.
- A mathematician who specializes in category theory.
- 1988, Michael Main, Austin Melton, Michael Mislove, Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics, page 498:
- The concept of path of arrows is what the categorist uses instead of the concept of word or string of symbols.
- 1995, Michael Barr, Charles Wells, Category Theory for Computing Science - Volume 1, page 48:
- This mapping is regarded by the categorist as an inclusion, even though in fact it may change what the integer really is.
- 2013, P.R. Halmos, I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography:
- Four among them were Walter Feit (of Feit-Thopson simple group fame), John Isbell (who, God forgive him, became a categorist), Karel de Leeuw (an excellent harmonic analyst, brutally murdered in his middle age by a psychotic student) , and Sterling Berberian.
References[edit]
- “categorist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.