| 单词 | porphyrian tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPorphyrian tree Porphyrian tree n. [originally described in Porphyry's Isagoge in Aristotelis Categorias (though without explicitly using the metaphor of a tree), and subsequently used in medieval textbooks; compare post-classical Latin arbor Porphyriana (1409 or earlier; a1277 as arbor Porphyrii)] a classification of species, branches of knowledge, etc., by means of successive dichotomy producing paired subcategories, often represented as a branching diagram likened to a tree. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record > tree, diagram, etc. > of genera of man Porphyrian tree1656 Porphyrian scale1687 1656 A. Cowley Misc. 26 in Poems That right Porphyrian Tree which did true Logick shew, Each Leaf did learned Notions give, And th' Apples were Demonstrative. 1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 59 You err, if you think this is he, Tho' seated on the top of the Porphyrian Tree. 1891 F. C. Montague Introd. in J. Bentham Fragment on Govt. 20 All knowledge was for him [sc. Jeremy Bentham] an endless reproduction of the Porphyrian tree. 1999 W. Hüllen Eng. Dict. 285 He [sc. Wilkins] does see his ‘Tables’ in the tradition of ancient logic and ontology as it had come down to him through the centuries from the Porphyrian tree to Ramistic schemata of knowledge. < as lemmas |
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