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Abstract

The art of ranking things in genera and species is of no small importance and very much assists our judgment as well as our memory. You know how much it matters in botany, not to mention animals and other substances, or again moral and notional entities as some call them. Order largely depends on it, and many good authors write in such a way that their whole account could be divided and subdivided according to a procedure related to genera and species. This helps one not merely to retain things, but also to find them. And those who have laid out all sorts of notions under certain headings or categories have done something very useful.Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding (Leibniz, 1704)

@inproceedings{vanrooij2010evolangpredicability,
  author={Robert van Rooij},
  title={The predicability tree: How, and why?},
  year={2010},
  pages={329-335},
  editor={Andrew D. M. Smith and Marieke Schouwstra and Bart de Boer and Kenny Smith},
  publisher={World Scientific},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language},
  doi={10.1142/9789814295222_0042},
  url={http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/amag/langev/paper/vanrooij2010evolangpredicability.html}
}