Discipline: A major cohesive area of knowledge based upon a particular research methodology or having common similar objects of studies.
Educational and Scientific Consensus: H E Bliss tried to discover an order of main classes based upon the consensus of educationists and scientists. He used such an order in his system of Bibliographic Classification.
Evolutionary Order: Order of classes in the natural, chronological sequence of their origin and development. This order is taxonomic and cosmic
Knowledge: Sum total of ideas, facts, fiction, myths, experiences conserved by the human society. What is known to the society and is held in its collective memory may be called knowledge. Knowledge is what I know , whereas information as what we known.
Main Class: First order array of the divisions of the universe of knowledge. Number of main classes and their order varies from classification to classification. Main classes make the broader map of knowledge.
One Place Theory: To collocate all the abstract aspect of a concrete subject around it. Given by James Duff Brown it is an alternative approach to division by discipline. But it did not work well in mapping knowledge and shelf arrangement of books.
Subject: A topic or theme for study, research or discussion
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