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Cataloguing vs Classification – What’s the difference?

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Cataloguing vs Classification - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between cataloguing and classification is that cataloguing is the act of arranging in, or as if in, a catalogue while classification is the act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc, according to some common relations or attributes.

As a verb cataloguing is .

cataloguing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun )

  • The act of arranging in, or as if in, a catalogue.
  • * 2010 , Ernest Becker, Birth and Death of Meaning

    • Anagrams

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    classification

    English

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
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    , title=Other Inquisitions
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  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • I’m using mathesis‘ — a universal science of ”’measurement”’ and ”’order”’ …
    And there is also ”’taxinomia”’ a principle of ”””classification””” and ordered ”’tabulation”’.
    Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
    Western reason had entered the ‘     age of judgement     .

    Derived terms

    * classification scheme

    Related terms

    * class
    * classic
    * classify
    * category
    * categorize
    * segment

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