I now you guys know "What would Jarno do?".
(which is exactly what Thad will do... not sweat over it and just
multi-type when I need to apply FictionalThing...in fact, I am already
doing it, because I know it will win out in the end. :-) and my parsers
already handle it quite well.)
Debate all you want in this thread, but the Elves have pretty much already
decided what they are building for Christmas without your squabbling
philosophical debates...
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jarno van Driel <jarnovandriel@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>
>> "Under this hope, the absence of a claim that something is fictional is
>> an indication that it is real"
>
>
> &
>
> Simon Spero wrote:
>
>> "What changes are needed to infer that a Person is not a Fictional
>> Person?"
>
>
> OK, call me a muppet instead of an elf but can't
> parsers/reasoners/whatever handle the idea of 'undefined'?
> Because currently there is no method to express something is fictional,
> does that therefor imply everything in the schema.org universe is
> non-fictional? No, it's means the fictionality of things is undefined.
>
> And I truly don't understand why by being able to specify something is
> fictional everything which isn't specified as such suddenly has to
> automatically carry the load of being fictional.
>
> Now I could get nitpicky and therefore argue that if we add a Fictional
> type we then should also add a NonFictional type for those who do want to
> be able to specify something is non-fictional but the question then quickly
> becomes, do we expect anybody to use such a type?
>
> But even if both were to be added, fact stays, if they're not defined the
> fictionality of a thing is 'undefined'. In this muppet's world that's good
> enough as I don't get paid for having philosophical dilemmas and therefor
> need quick and easy methods to apply markup.
>
> So +1 from me for the <div itemscope itemtype="http:/schema.org/Product
> http://schema.org/FictionalThingyStaty">...</div>
>
>
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