Categorization, is it possible not to do that?

Abstract

This work deals with categorization from different perspectives such as the philosophical, linguistic, psychological, anthropologic and computational ones. These perspectives are treated in a linear fashion in order to its convergences be pointed out and its complementarities be seen as a gestalt that reaffirms the importance of the categorization. The theoretical part serves as the basis for the interpretation of the results gotten in a test that shows some relevant aspects in the categorization of ‘hybrid animals’ whose the two main parts, head and body, are of distinct animals, taxonomically categorized on the basic level but subordinated to categories that exclude each other: cat (mammal) and snake (reptile), for example.