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encyclopedism

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en·cy·clo·pe·dism  (n-skl-pdzm)
n.
Encyclopedic learning.
encyclopedism
1. the command of a wide range of knowledge.
2. the writings and thoughts of the 18th-century French Encyclopedists, especially an emphasis on scientific rationalism. — encyclopedist, n.
See also: Knowledge
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Noun1.encyclopedism - profound scholarly knowledge
encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship
education - knowledge acquired by learning and instruction; "it was clear that he had a very broad education"
letters - scholarly attainment; "he is a man of letters"
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The Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark, for example, actually had departments for science and technology, social sciences, and humanities teaching subjects such as special bibliography, subject literature, subject encyclopedism, and the philosophy and communication of subject knowledge.
Arguments for philosophical realism in library and information science by Hjorland, Birger / Library Trends
Similarly, general readers who understand the importance of studying anatomy, heliocentrism, or the idea of force and gravity, might only blink in disbelief at a discussion of the hypotenuse of the spirit, of the "upright Tsade" (in Copenhaver's article), and may fail to understand the importance of the extensive study of encyclopedism, or of commentaries on Galen's Ars parva.
New work on the "occult" and natural disciplines of the Renaissance. ... by Long, Pamela O. / Renaissance Quarterly
Of all the problems generated by the supershow scale, the curatorial ambition as such is less pertinent than the almost inevitable urge to create effects of evidence through the matic clustering: Archive, city, model, border, textuality, encyclopedism, violence, postcolonialism, carnival, labyrinth, and so many other classificatory aids tend to support a narrative of contiguities and seamlessness rather than one of disruptions and constructions (in Ranciere's sense of the political).
Platform muse: documenta11 by Meyer, James / Artforum International
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