Max from Min

Consider these:

• "the task of category systems is to provide maximum information with the least cognitive effort."
  
  - Rosch, E. (1999). Principles of categorization. In E. Margolis & S. Lawrence (eds.). Concepts. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. p. 190
  


• "One comes nearer to the most superior scientific goal, to embrace a maximum of experimental content through logical deduction from a minimum of hypotheses."
  
  - attributed to Einstein in Holton, G. J. (1996). Einstein, history, and other passions : the rebellion against science at the end of the Twentieth Century. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley. p. 203.
  


• Language "makes infinite use of finite media."
  
  - attributed to Wilhelm Von Humboldt in Pinker, S. (1994). The Language Instinct. New York: W. Morrow and Co. p. 84.
  

How do the above statements relate to fundamental categories in classification as exemplified by Ranganathan's PMEST? Can a discrete combinatorial system like language be created in bibliographic classification systems? Are there fixed, formal structures in information organization which carry a creative principle such as found in mathematics?

Am I asking the right questions?