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Librarians have systems that can classify every published book. And scientific publishers can classify every paper. Those don't add up to a complete classificat
by tlb 3mo ago
Librarians have systems that can classify every published book. And scientific publishers can classify every paper. Those don't add up to a complete classification of all human knowledge, but it's a substantial fraction of it.
If you skim the high-level book categories at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes, you may conclude this is is beyond a lifetime's work.
- elijahwright 3mo agoMmhmm. A talented cataloger in a research library understands where the 'fuzz' in these systems is - where the margins intersect - and they have a process for helping systematize those classifications in a way that they can socialize with other librarians across the world. (If nobody has ever cataloged a particular book before... your record is probably going into OCLC WorldCat and other people will borrow the output of your thinking process later... making things more and more definitive.)
- Abhishek000001 3mo agoOkay I got it . But do we have any best possible classification system or map . That is most complete. A map which has tried to capture totality of all known human knowledge without leaving anything significant. I want this so I am not unaware of any field of knowledge. Atleast any significant feild of knowledge Practically Best possible . Thank you sir for your response