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This piece explores the philosophical origins of sense-making as defined in Brenda Dervin’s methodology.
Abstract
Purpose
This piece explores the philosophical origins of sense-making as defined in Brenda Dervin’s methodology.
Design/methodology/approach
This conceptual paper locates the origins of sense-making's rich ontological, epistemological and etymological heritage to the Classical Greece and the Pre-Socratic period. The Greek origins of sense-making‘s philosophical undercurrents surface again in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit before the idea is picked up again in twentieth century philosophy and library science.
Findings
This is a conceptual paper and no empirical findings are presented.
Originality/value
This paper makes an original contribution to the study of information seeking and to sense making theory and methodology.
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