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 Dewey, Peirce, and the rest of the Pragmatists might roll over in their grave. Honestly, I think they meant well with classification systems but I think those systems have held human thought back for far longer than was good.

There was no way for "Emergent Classification" to exist under the Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress Classification systems.

Hell, I see this being applied to things like lichen and fungus classification because those guys have been scratching their heads for well over a century trying to figure out what's related to what.