He felt that objects imprisoned inside museums became grotesque, self-important simulacra of themselves, dead and embalmed, reeking of all the sterility of systematisation.
That was when the systematisation of football, the acknowledgement that the game was not simply a matter of individual battles, but about the most efficacious deployment of players, really took hold.
What that means is that you learn grammar and language patterns by association and context, rather than by systematisation or rules.
But this guy just did a really studious and thorough systematisation of mythology from throughout the world, not just fairytales but also oral traditions and the heroic narrative.
The takeover led to the gradual systematisation of scientific publishing, replacing the complete freedom of action of the early editors with rule-bound committees.
China Miéville talks about a childhood playing RPGs – which gave him a "mania for cataloguing the fantastic" and a "weird fetish for systematisation".
It is, as political philosopher Alan Haworth said in a briefing distributed to parliamentarians this year, "an object lesson in the systematisation of those general principles which most effectively embody the only values most appropriate to a free people".
Freud, himself a therapeutic pessimist, championed lay analysts, was talkative, preferred cases to systematisation, thought symptoms were less important than underlying conflicts and never considered homosexuality an illness.
As such it faces the same basic and unanswerable question as any other such systematisation, "by what right does it legislate to the moral sentiments?" (1981: x).
For example, Quine accepts platonism because he takes it to be the scientifically sanctioned interpretation of mathematics: in his view, the mathematics contained in the best systematisation of science is platonic.
