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Author:     Hope A. Olson
Title:         Bacon, Warrant, and Classification
Outline:    
  • Warrant
  • Pre-Baconian classifications
  • Aristotle
  • Liberal arts
  • Francis Bacon's Classification
  • 17thC scholarship, in Bacon's view, contributed to
  • Human intellectual process
  • Epistemological warrant
  • Post-Baconian classifications
  • G.W.F. Hegel
  • Dewey Decimal Classification
  • Bibliographic classifications
  • Classification as active agent
  • Gaps in knowledge
  • Epistemological warrants reveals gaps
  • Attractive modesty & flexibility
  • Bacon's argument
  • Bacon from the 21st century

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