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Type of categorisation, categorization, classification

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This is the trichotomy of all signs as building blocks in an inference process.
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If the axiom of choice holds, the law of trichotomy holds for cardinality.
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Critics of this argument assert that it presents a false trichotomy.
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This is the trichotomy of all signs as building blocks of inference.
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Let us begin with the observation that lunatic and liar are both more likely than lord in that trichotomy.
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I think this is a false trichotomy, ontologically speaking.
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A particular case provided in the original paper poses the scenario where we reason based on the trichotomy listed above.
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Each of the three typologies is a three-way division, a trichotomy, via Peirce's three phenomenological categories.
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Researchers proposed the taxon Hominini on the basis of the idea that the least similar species of a trichotomy should be separated from the other two.
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  • Being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses
  • In mathematics, trichotomy is the property of an order relation that for any x and y, exactly one of the following holds: , , or . In classical logic, this axiom of trichotomy holds for ordinary comparison of the real numbers and therefore for their subsets such as the integers and rational numbers.
  • A trichotomy is a three-way classificatory division, and some philosophers pursued trichotomies. Important trichotomies discussed by Aquinas include the causal principles (agent, patient, act) and the acts of the intellect (concept, judgment, reasoning), both rooted in Aristotle; the ...
  • The teaching that the human consists of three parts: body, soul, and spirit. (Compare with Dichotomy.)