Book review of: Marc Ereshefsky. The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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A book review of a book criticizing the famous classification system developed by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707â 1778), which has been used and adapted by biologists over a period of almost 250 years.
The review considers theoretical issues in classification and the importance of the book for the field of Knowledge Organization.

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1. Book review of: Marc Ereshefsky. The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 2008-11, 35(4) Knowledge Organization
2. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106326
3. http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/106326
4. Knowledge Organization

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Knowledge Organization

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/106326
Date	11 1900
Creators	Hjørland, Birger
Source Sets	University of Arizona
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Journal Article (Paginated)