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We should also consider some of the potential consequences of the classificatory imagination.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2021

The possibilities of streaming have inspired a new "classificatory imagination."

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2021

But by the 1970s the classificatory impulse as a vehicle for scientific legitimacy came to the fore.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2021

A survey conducted in 1993 by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University found that Goddard’s classificatory system was still used to evaluate the eligibility of a candidate for medical care.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2021

The hypothetical ancestral forms which the theory thus postulated naturally took their place in the natural system, for they were merely the concrete projections or archetypes of the classificatory groups.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell