Infrastructure · Data Structures
Category
Grouping of objects
Definition
Mechanism
A specific grouping or 'bin' for objects. It defines the taxonomy and allows the agent to treat distinct items as equivalent for certain operations.
Invariants
None stated.
Risks
Failure modes
None stated.
Relationships
Root pattern: builds on nothing in this library.
Used by
References
Mind
Recognition of a category's members comes to rest on a salient mark that co-occurs with them rather than on what makes them members
Mind
Re-check a classification of agents who can learn of it, because being classified may change them
Vertical rank ordering with Upper/Lower relations, inheritance, and authority
Mind
A classification changes those it classifies, altering the fit of later classifications
A category defined partly by the transformations its members keep their identity under
Mind
Restructuring categories to fit data
Mind
Check that a moment really fits the category it is about to be handled as
A classification that carries the condition under which it stops being used
Extends
A category defined partly by the transformations its members keep their identity under
A classification that carries the condition under which it stops being used
Reference
Data schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"label"
],
"properties": {
"label": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Name of the category"
},
"parent": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Parent category ID (optional, for hierarchies)"
},
"members": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "IDs of items belonging to this category"
}
}
}