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from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Porphyry (about 233–305
a. d. ), a neo-Platonic philosopher and opponent of Christianity.
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Unlike them, however, Chisholm (1996, 3) lays out categories in the form of a porphyrian tree starting from a single most general category comprising everything, but divided into successively narrower genera at lower levels of branching.
Categories Thomasson, Amie 2009
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