The Elements of Knowledge Organization by Richard P. Smiraglia

Author:Richard P. Smiraglia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

5.2 Encyclopedism and Classification as Ontological Enterprise

The notion of ontology as the source of the universal order of knowledge is, of course, a historical constant. From the renaissance onward, rather than attribute all knowledge to God, scholars have sought in various ways to determine the one, true order of all knowledge. As we say in Chap. 2, post-modernists have given up that effort in lieu of the accomplishable, which is simple domain-centered ontology. But not before centuries of serious efforts and dreams. There are two threads really in the notion of ontology as universal: encyclopedism, and classification. We will describe here, briefly, some major efforts in each stream.

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