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The Four Types of Pleasure refers to the notable philosophical [neologistical] position that all forms of human pleasure can be broken down into four essential categories: Arbitrary Categorization, Correcting People When They're Wrong, Solid/Liquid Interaction, and Who's Driving The Boat? This is generally considered a neologism, by many men (and women). Most scholars recognize this as a very notable thing.

History
The origins of the eminent, and eminently notable, neologism: "The Four Types of Pleasure," lie in The Chicago School of Pleasurable Thought. While the rise in popularity of this idea cannot be contributed to one lone person, or to the fact that it is so evidently a neologism, its creation is commonly attributed to one Paul Brown. Mr. Brown, while openly taking no credit for the creation of the philosophy, was the spearhead in the movement to define, by means of Arbitrary Categorization, what exactly pleasurable things must be. While his ideas do not define what a pleasurable thing is, they most certainly do provide a litmus test so as to rule out some things which are, in fact, not pleasurable, in a very neologistic fashion. Citation: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/physics.2.ii.html.

The Four Types
Here are brief descriptions of each of The Four Types of Pleasure.

Arbitrary Categorization
Notable Neologism-wise, this category, perhaps the most "meta" of the four, represents the human need to impose order upon the world around us. Whether this is an attempt to commune with God so as to explain a natural phenomenon or seeking a scientific explanation as to why something functions a certain way, all such acts are, in essence, providing an existentially arbitrary categorization of the world around us.

Correcting People When They're Wrong
This category is straightforward. Since it is very rare that someone can be satisfactorily right, there is a great deal of pleasure derived from proving that to someone else, especially a That Kid. It is from Correcting People When They're Wrong that hipsters derive pleasure.

Solid/Liquid Interaction
The largest of the four types, Solid/Liquid Interaction is any activity in which a solid and a liquid interact, either necessarily or not. This covers a great many things including sex, which many have described as a most pleasurable experience. It is from Liquid/Solid Interactions that Swimmers and Olympians derive their essence.

Who's Driving The Boat?
This represents the pleasure taken from the absurd, be it an inside joke, a particularly crafty neologism, or simply something completely different. Anyone under the age of 25 can appreciate this to no end. It is from Who's Driving The Boat? that Cobblers and Brandon derive their essence.