On 11/04/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
on 4/9/07 7:45 PM, Steve Bennett at
stevagewp(a)gmail.com wrote:
Another major problem is that cases like yours
("accidental deaths")
aren't really categories at all, they're attributes. Harold Holt was a
former Australian prime minister. He *wasn't* an accidental death. He
*had* an accidental death. It's an interesting attribute, and perhaps
worth searching for, but somehow it would be nice to be able to
distinguish the real categories from the attributes.
But is this distinction really necessary? If I am wanting to have a list of
all persons who died as a result of an accident, inserting the Category
"Accidental deaths" in this case would accomplish that.
Yes, but at the price of meaning you have to wade through potentially
hundreds of category entries on a major biographical article to find
the one you want.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk