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Deliberate bias in Knowledge Organization? 10th International ISKO Conference, Montréal Thursday, August 7, 2008

Hjørland, Birger (2008) Deliberate bias in Knowledge Organization? 10th International ISKO Conference, Montréal Thursday, August 7, 2008 .

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Abstract

Considers the ideal of objectivity in science and the scientific ideals of representativity, testability and cumulativity on the one hand, and on the other hand norms of scholarship and knowledge organization based on rhetorical arguments which must be based on explicated values and goals.

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Subjects:Epistemology
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Deposited On:15 September 2008
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(this presentation was not published in the Conference Proceedings)

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