I find it so fascinating the deep yearning some people have for contextless ontologies. Someone decided to call the Mac Mini a workstation... for what purpose?

I find it so fascinating the deep yearning some people have for contextless ontologies. Someone decided to call the Mac Mini a workstation... for what purpose? Did categorizing it as a workstation illuminate or confuse the larger point they were trying to make? If the former, then it's a workstation in that context and if the latter, it's not, again in that context. Fundamental to my worldview is that we put things into boxes solely to aid in communication and the box is not important except insofar as it serves that functional purpose. But for others, the boxes themselves are deeply important and a huge amount of effort is spent cramming continuous functions into discrete containers for the sheer, seeing like a stateesque satisfaction of seeing the world organized. I'll never understand it.