[Esip-preserve] A Reference on Classification and Cataloging

[Bruce Barkstrom]

Some of the problems that seem to bedevil us relate to developing
classifications and categories.  An interesting book written by a well-known
professor of Semiotics (the study of "signs", "signifying," and linguistics)
is

Eco, U., 1997: Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition,
Harcourt, San Diego, CA

Kant, if I read correctly was one of those philosophers who wanted the
create a hierarchical catalog of "everything".  It took biologists about 100
years to provide a fairly "settled" categorization of the Platypus.  Eco at
least has a sense of humor about this - giving the sentence "This is a
mouse,
but it is eighty meters long and weighs eight hundred kilograms." a few
comments.  He also notes that there's a difference between "Dictionary
knowledge" and "Encyclopedia knowledge," suggesting that "Encyclopedic
knowledge, ... would be uncoordinated by nature, with an uncontrollable
format, and the encyclopedic content of `dog' would have to include
practically all that is known and could be known about dogs ..." [Op. Cit.,
p. 226].  This description sounds too familiar to most of us - but that
truth kind of adds to the admonition about keeping a sense of humor
and civility.

You may note the reference to a particular subset of the text in this book
in the last sentence.

Enjoy.

Bruce B.

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