Ideology in the Orientation of Researchers in the Identification and Gathering of Empirical Data

These ambiguities, redundancies and deficiencies bring to mind the ones in a certain Chinese encyclopedia named Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. In its remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) belonging to the Emperor; (b) embalmed; (c) domesticated; (d) pigs; (e) mermaids; (f) fabulous; (g) stray dogs; (h) included in this classification; (i) madly agitated; (j) innumerable; (k) drawn by a very fine camel-hair brush; (1) et cetera; (m) that just broke a vase, (n) that look like flies from afar.