[snippet from a private conversation]
I think Bacon invented tagging.
He called it “Ye Olde Fyfteme for the Identification & Categorifation or Detailef Bothe Triviale & uf Greate Concerne Using Labelef Compofed uf Wordf Individuallie & inne fmall Groupes Expreffing Meaninge & Relationfhipf Thuf Beinge fifted tew Difplay chofen Meaninge & Relationfhips tew the Readere.”
Interestingly enough, he had a tagging system (similar to Aristotle’s classifications of all worldly things) which consisted of the following tags:
- Thingf thate belonge tew the Queen
- People I hav flept withe
- Things thate thate baftard fhakefpeare wrote (an empty category!)
- Thingf thate are yello lik the Jaundife
- Thingf thate tafte lik the potato
- Things I hav flept upon
- Puftules, boilf, goiterf & other growthf