Taxonomy

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A way of dividing up things. A narrative. An intellectual, and political, commitment, at the expense, as long as you’re using it, of all others.

We all do it, all the time. It is just that some people are in denial about it.

A taxonomy of taxonomies

• Risk taxonomy: We wax lyrical about risk taxonomies here.
• Metadata taxonomy: and the forlorn passtime of extracting rent through intelligently categorising your data corpus here.

See also

• Systems analysis
• Risk taxonomy