دانلود کتاب طبقه بندی مرتبط است – نحوه استفاده از طبقه بندی و آنتولوژی

Doesn’t everyone want the universe to make sense? Wouldn’t it be great if we humans had a rational way of relating everything with everything else so that our world may become a bit less confusing? As it happens, we have a nifty little device to do just that. It is called a classification. While catalogs and indexes help us organize items, classifications organize relationships among classes. It is through our understanding of class relationships that we begin to understand our world. In Classification Made Relevant, we will explore three major themes: 1. That building classifications is one of the most intellectually rewarding pursuits available to serious scientists. We will see that the history of science is punctuated by moments of intense clarity when relationships among classes are suddenly revealed. 2. That the science of classification must be learned, just as we learn any other scientific discipline. Many of the disastrous classifications forced upon scientists have been produced by clueless individuals who neglected the fundamental rules of classification construction. We will take some pleasure in reviewing some of the most ill-conceived classifications, along with the common errors committed during their construction. 3. That classifications are devices by which we organize relationships among things and are not just a means by which we tidy up collections of items by inventing categories. Much of the book’s narrative is driven by the notion that classifications embody the natural order of the universe. The relationships revealed by scientific classifications lead us to discover how the world operates. When we visit the great classifications of the natural world, we can begin to appreciate the unity of all the sciences.