A sketch of one of these things with “Kierkegaard” centrally scrawled graces the cover of Witold Gombrowicz’s “Guide to Philosophy.” A totalizing way of thought named for these objects has “made us suffer too much” and should be discarded for one resembling a network of multiplicities, according to A (-5[1])Thousand Plateaus. Translations by Ramon Llull (-5[1])(“L’YOOL”) and Boethius include drawings (-5[1])of one of these things illustrating (15[1])Aristotle’s Categories, (15[1])as introduced (-5[1])in Porphyry’s (15[2]-5[1])(*) Isagoge (10[3]-5[3])(“eye-suh-GO-gay”). Descartes’s Principles of Philosophy compares the subject of philosophy to one of these things, (10[1])ascending (10[1])from metaphysics (-5[1])and (-5[1])physics to sciences (-5[1])at the top. (-5[5])In William (10[1]-5[1])James’s (-5[1])Pragmatism, (-5[2])a man (10[1])chases a squirrel (10[2])around (10[1])one (10[1])of these (10[3])objects. (10[5])For 10 points, what plants (10[1])are often used to (10[2])analogize (10[1])hierarchical (10[1])structures? (10[3])■END■ (10[16])