On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
Procedures like making simple logical deductions, arranging in alphabetical order, or collecting lists of items are not interpretations.
Not always, anyway. Lists of people by sexuality or ethnicity, for example, have been known to stray into the area of creative interpretation.
That's because the individual items in the list are interpretations, not because collecting a list is a type of interpretation.