Comparative results indicate that integrating different types of knowledge is inherently complex – classification of knowledge is arbitrary and knowledge integration perspectives are qualitatively very different.
His philosophical tract De rationali et de ratione uti ("Concerning the Rational and the Use of Reason") emphasized problems of definition and classification of knowledge.
Reflecting Dr. Adler's Aristotelian and Thomist bent, it was divided into an introductory volume, called a Propaedia, that set forth a classification of knowledge, a 10-volume ready-reference dictionary, called a Micropedia, and a 19-volume Macropedia filled with longer essays on major subjects.
In this work Bacon presents a systematic survey of the extant realms of knowledge, combined with meticulous descriptions of deficiencies, leading to his new classification of knowledge.
The label that we all strive for (Graduate student, Dr., etc). is just a random classification of "knowledge" we should not strive to protect.
The paper describes three principles of reuse, i.e., the separation of information from knowledge, the separation of product knowledge from manufacturing process knowledge, and the correct classification of manufacturing knowledge.
This rapid expansion of chemical knowledge soon necessitated classification, for on the classification of chemical knowledge are based not only the systematized literature of chemistry but also the laboratory arts by which chemistry is passed on as a living science from one generation of chemists to another.
Utility demonstration - The utility of the taxonomy should be demonstrated through the classification of existing knowledge.
