Talk: LCF, 25April 2009, St Nic's Nott'm

title: Adam & Deweydam and Dewey

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Bless to us our thinking;
and learning, may we glorify You.

Bless to us our senses;

and perceiving, may we delight in what
you make.

Bless to us our conversation;

In speaking may we build up all.

So may we think more truly;

know more clearly

and grow together in loving service.

Amen. 2
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Dewey?

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Genesis 2
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So out of the ground the
Lord God formed every
animal of the field and every
bird of the air, and brought
them to the man to see what
he would call them; and
whatever the man called
every living creature, that
was its name. 20 The man
gave names to all cattle, and
to the birds of the air, and to
every animal of the field;
but for the man there was
not found a helper as his
partner. 5
Naming:

Contemplation
and
taxonomy

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In "The Analystical
Language of John Wilkins,"
Jorge Luis Borges
describes a mythical
Chinese encyclopedia, the
Celestial Emporium of
Benevolent Knowledge,
that divides all plants and
animals into fourteen
wonderful, fanciful
categories as a means to
refute ... those, like
Wilkins, who had long
sought to produce a
universal language.
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http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
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http://nouslife.blogspot.com/search/label/homo_loquens
 (Pedagogical)
constructivism:
people construct
their own
understanding and
knowledge of the
world, through
experiencing things
and reflecting on
those experiences.
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http://nouslife.blogspot.com/search/label/homo_loquens
 Folksonomy:
the bottom-up
classification
systems that
emerge from
social tagging..

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http://nouslife.blogspot.com/search/label/homo_loquens
Image of God ...

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Opus Dei of librarians
...

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