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Will_Newsome comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 2 - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: OpenThreadGuy 20 April 2012 07:38PM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 20 April 2012 11:19:56PM *  3 points [-]

Aristotelian tradition. I'm sure you could find a lot of similarly motivated classifications in the cybernetics and complex systems literature if you're not into old school metaphysics.