This is great. I'm bookmarking this article as an example of our neverending quest to classify and organize. And how the notion that there is a single, canonical right way to do it is a powerful motivator, where the holy grail is to lay bare a hidden structure that might (for example) be used as a predictor.
There is a caveat here though: when such a structure is found we tend to think that we have discovered everything, and forget that there are still many ways to look at things, organizing principles that may explain other things.
We often think: "there can only be one", in my experience.
There is a caveat here though: when such a structure is found we tend to think that we have discovered everything, and forget that there are still many ways to look at things, organizing principles that may explain other things.
We often think: "there can only be one", in my experience.