On encyclopedia

Encyclopedia, wanna-be-universal / Anti-encyclopedia, a melting pot?

Started in the 17th as to gather and systematize. Concrete / artificial system - Human Construction / subjectivity.

Semantics: describing things; (linguistics). - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_philosophy // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols Mathematics: functions.

Language is a system that cannot be trusted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Mauthner - language skepticism): "Should constantly be questioned".

Also in the 17th century fact and speculation methods were tight together. Facts vs Fiction.

eg.: of Universal Languages: Mathematics / Programing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto .

Semantic web ontology (tree like hierarchical structure) - one consistent framework; system of meta tagging (classification); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology object subject relation

A database is an organized collection of data. The data is typically organized to model aspects of reality in a way that supports processes requiring information. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database)

assembly + categorization + accessibility

Total & Parts (fragmentations)

Foucault: experience of the order:

- same - other

Systematize differences.

A dictionary is a more specific case of an encyclopedia.

There is no such a thing as technical precision?

SPACES - encyclopedia as a general space for knowledge.

Utopia: non-place; fictional; perfection (like in Thomas More' island); aim for universality - single place. Heterotopia: (an)other-places; disjunction; divided place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotopia_(space)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life