[Sigia-l] The Value of an IA discussion - from a newbie's perspective

[andrew at friendlymanual.com]

Quoting Eric Scheid <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au>:

> On the contrary front though ... he wasn't the first to classify stuff. Go
> back to the ancient greek.

>From memory, the particular Greek chap was Aratosthenes (immortalised as Terry
Pratchett's Ratonastickthenes), who probably did not invent but was the first
to publish the western elemental classification system
(Earth-Air-Fire-Water-Spirit).

We could probably go back further to Babylonian astrologers.

This is not "accepted science" now but was then. People categorise.

I agree with Eric that categorisation does not an IA make but it is a useful
skill for us to have - such that we can recognise that different people will
categorise things differently - this is one of the main ROI selling points for
IA.

Cheers, Andrew

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