Patients were treated non-surgically or surgically and end-of-treatment outcomes were reviewed based on division into three categories: orthodontic success, orthodontic failure, and surgical success.
The definition has changed several times over the course of time but a division into four categories overall has remained: desire/interest, arousal, orgasm and pain disorders (Basson et al. 2000, 2004, 2010; McCabe et al. 2016).
Nominalists maintained that the division into ten categories was a partition of terms on the basis of semantic criteria, and that there are only two or three real categories (substance and quality, and perhaps quantity too).
Jacques Toubon, a former centre-right justice minister who is now the French constitutional ombudsman for citizens' rights, warned against "a fundamental division of French people into two categories, against the spirit and letter of the French constitution".
His epistemological principle of "verum ipsum factum", which he directed against Descartes, gives rise to the division of the term "fact" into two categories: facts that are organic and inorganic in nature, which are predefined for man.
Auster's novels tend to fall into two categories, Paris and New York, a division of tone, style, and ambition rather than of setting — paradoxically, some of his most Parisian fiction takes place in New York City.
The division of age at breast cancer diagnosis into three categories, less than 50 years, 50 79 years, and 80 years or more, derived from multivariable analyses of interactions, of 10-year age groups where those with similar effects of CCI were grouped together.
