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Category
Category refers to a grouping of items sharing one or more similarities; an aggregation of people or things that share some common attribute or are related in some way.
Moreover, Category refers to a term Bruner used to describe a grouping of related objects or events. In this sense, a category is both a concept and a percept. Bruner also defines it as a rule for classifying things as equivalent. (See Coding system.)
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