20 Mar hierarchical relation

A taxonomical way to classify things that are related to one another in such a way that when you go down one level, the objects inherit the characteristics of the higher level. The family structure is hierarchical as is the biological classification tree with kingdoms, phyla, genus, species, etc.
Keywords: taxonomy
relation
descriptive relation
categorize
causal relation
knowledge
References: associationism
cognition
inference
knowledge
taxonomy