On 6/7/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Incidentally, I realised one great thing that could be done with a hierarchical taxonomy: The very top branch can be "Fictional" vs "Real". Easy way to prune out huge sections of fancruft :)
Steve
Not really. I don't see what such a division gains. You still have a demarcation problem. Is [[Darth Vader]] fictional or real? He's obviously fictional, since such a fellow never was born, lived, fell to the dark side, and was redeemed; but on the other, you can't say he is completely unreal and unmoored from reality, because there are countless real things of him, various physical real objects like comics, books, movies, costumes with actors in them etc.
~maru 'Shuzan held out his short staff and said, "If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?"'