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Quote: Dewey paraphrased: organize your books so that you can find them, and never mind the philosophy

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Topic:
classification
Group:
philosophy
Topic:
problem of classifying information
Topic:
thesaurus and information retrieval

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Librarians have a practical aim. Dewey in effect … Dewey of course referred to a full-blown library … a look at any set of ordinary English … Retrieval thesauri are concerned with restricted vocabularies, but … differs essentially from that of our ordinary vocabulary. … constructing a retrieval thesaurus.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: any set of ordinary English thesauri show how differently the same vocabulary can be treated
Quote: a retrieval thesaurus, like any thesaurus, is somewhat arbitrary

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