Is classification still needed after Google?
I mean with google going ham on shoving machine learning and websites that pay to be top of your search/advertisements down our throats it might help to have some classification so that we can search on our own. Hell, google scholar exists.
According to Science Theory, everydomain has its own area of objects and of methodsand processes, next to other relationships.
Well, yeah?
practicalism
Ah, exactly. He is going for the practical but forgetting the library is also for everyone not just scholars.
The more definite the concepts, the relations, andthe principles of science, philosophy, and educationbecome, the clearer and more stable the order ofthe sciences and studies in relation to learning andto life; and so the scientific and educational consen-sus becomes more dominant and more permanent
okay, so Bliss definitely thinks very highly of science; he regards it well over the idea of culture and communit,y I believe? I
“Topics should be collo-cated and placed in classes not according to the whim ofthe person who devises the classification system, but ac-cording to the standards set by scientists and educators”
Kind of a hostile take - and "scientists and educators"? Why only these groups. Is it to make it easier for them since they're the ones teaching the subjects? It's an understandable want but also seems like it leaves out other important groups.