%0 Journal Article %T A contribui£¿£¿o da hist¨®ria dos conceitos ¨¤ ci¨ºncia da informa£¿£¿o: dimens£¿es categ¨®rico-abstratas e anal¨ªtico-causais %A Rabello %A Rodrigo %J Ci¨ºncia da Informa£¿£¿o %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0100-19652010000300003 %X the history of concepts, albeit still little explored by information science, can provide important contributions for the study of key concepts that constitute the theoretical-conceptual framework in a scientific context. thus, the history of concepts is presented as a tool for the study of diachronic and synchronic features of the scientific concept in information science. for such, it was imperative to understand the intersection of the categorical-abstract and analytical-causal dimensions, both relevant for constituting the very proposition of the history of concepts elaborated by reinhart koselleck. %K scientific concepts %K history of concepts %K epistemology %K information science. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-19652010000300003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en