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Is the pragmatist John Dewey and Melvil Dewey related?

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I do know for a fact that they are not brothers.

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Who was Melvil Dewey and what did he do?
Melville Dewey was an American librarian,educator and inventor of the Dewey Decimal classification scheme for library classification. Dewey invented the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system when...
Didn't John Dewey invent the Dewey decimal system?
No, Melvil Dewey copyrighted the Dewey decimal system in 1876.
How old was Melvil Dewey when he created the Dewey Decimal System?
Dewey was born on 10 December 1851. His book was published before April 1876. He would have been 24 at that time. Lydenberg, H.M. Dewey, Melvil. Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles...
When and where did Melvil Dewey create the Dewey Decimal System?
Dewey published A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library in 1876. He had developed it while working in the library at Amherst College. It...
Why did Melvil Dewey invent the Dewey Decimal System?
He had created it as he was dismayed at the way the books were organized and wanted people to not have to struggle to find a specific book.