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Bacon, Warrant, and Classification

Olson, Hope A. (2004) Bacon, Warrant, and Classification . In Breitenstein, Mikel, Eds. Proceedings 15th Workshop of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group in Classification Research, Providence, Rhode Island.

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Warrant, in classification, is encompassed in the Oxford English Dictionaryís definition: "justifying reason or ground for an action, belief, or feeling." Classifications may be deemed good or bad on the basis of any number of characteristics, but the justification for their choice and order of classes or concepts is one of the most fundamental. This paper will introduce the notion of warrant used by Francis Bacon in his classification of knowledge, discuss its uniqueness within the panoply of classificatory history, and suggest that Bacon still has a radical idea to suggest to todayís classificationists.

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Subjects:Classification
Knowledge Organization
History
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