Već se dugo dvoji treba li leksikografiju smjestiti u područje znanosti ili ne. U ovom se radu na osnovi suvremenih spoznaja filozofije znanosti i tehnologije pokazuje kako leksikografija, uzeta kao cjelina, po svojim svojstvima načelno pripada složenom području tehnologije. Takvo kategoriziranje dopušta prepoznati kako su pojedine sastavnice te discipline unutar dosega pojma znanosti, a riječ je o leksikografskoj teoriji i stvaranju znanstvenih rječnika.During Antiquity and Middle Ages, the concepts of science (Gr. ἐπιστήμη, Lat. scientia) and technology (Gr. τέχνη, Lat. ars) were not divorced but interwoven. On the other hand, modern-era epistemological paradigm proposed sharp demarcation of science from all the other knowledge-gaining activities, technology included. Current trends in the philosophies of science and technology seem to have rediscovered advantages of the premodern paradigm and reappropriated it. That shift provided a frame able to accomodate different aspects of lexicography within the edifice of academe, an issue that seems insolvable within the modern epistemological paradigm. As a whole, the academic discipline of lexicography seems to fit into the field of tehnology. Due to the conceptualization of tehnology in premodern-contemporary epistemological paradigm, such definition allows categorization of some lexicographical activities as scientific, namely those of the theory of lexicography and of (practical) scientific or scholarly lexicography
