Affect theory attempts to organize affects into discrete categories and connect each one with its typical response.
Clearly, any class of objects defines a discrete category when augmented with identity maps.
Most disagreeable was the way it characterized individuals into discrete racial categories they identified as "black" and "white."
Conoley's work is difficult to classify into any discrete poetic category.
I'm not sure I agree with your separation of brains and body into two discrete categories.
People experience colors as discrete categories: blue, red, yellow, and so on.
Efforts to sort the increasingly mixed population of the United States into discrete categories generated many difficulties.
This discrete category may be used as the index set to construct the ordinary binary product.
Most reearch during the 21st century has concluded that they do not represent a discrete phylogenetic category.
It's an error to see species as discrete categories just because the intermediates happen to be dead.