And while they have a point — after all, it's not a great idea to let cultural attachments dictate scientific categories — they're missing an important part of the picture.
Rather, they assert a kind of nominalism: that the world does not dictate the categories we use to describe it, that innumerable incompatible ways of classifying the world are available to us, and therefore that the selection of any one theory is a choice that cannot be justified by appeal to "objective" truth or reality.
These categories dictated one's life, social standing, and profession.
Assignment of individual cases to these diagnostic categories frequently dictates treatment choices.
The division of the continuous physical spectrum into specimens of discrete categories is dictated partly by the system we have learned in the course of our experience.
The categorical response variable MS was binary-coded to focus on the presence or absence of polygyny within gibbons (polygyny = 1; monogamy = 0; for Pongo spp., solitary = 0), and due to the inherent limitations of available tests of phylogenetic signal for categorical variables which dictate use of binary categories [ 54].
Create tabs to dictate various articles or categories.
Physicians are also afraid to lose any ground to other health professions: the American Medical Association and other physicians' groups have lobbied for restrictive regulations covering what's known as "scope of practice," which dictate what each category of health-care provider can do based on factors like education, training, and experience.
Beyond the importance of progressivity, fairness dictates that taxpayers in similar categories be treated equally.
The tension between regimentation and ambition - a pervasive "Confucian conflict" that manifests itself at every level of society and dictates consumer dynamics in every category, from cars to computers and sanitary napkins to shampoo -- results in deeply rooted anti-individualism.
Again, in this category, the original artist dictates likelihood of nomination and Chris Martin and co are expected to be in the big categories; accordingly Hopkins should be in this one.
