Re: Person and fictional Re: VideoGame proposal

On Oct 21, 2014 4:21 PM, "Jarno van Driel" <jarnovandriel@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

The problem is that you are changing the very meaning of existence in a way
that has been shown to have many practical problems.

Before: a page with some markup specifying an instance of a
FoodEstablishment described a place where you could get something to eat.

After: the same page may or may not specify a place where you can get
something to eat; an application looking for such places will now be unable
to distinguish between your local Starbucks and Alice's Restaurant.

If someone can explain to me what the driving motivator is for taking this
metaphysical stance is, I would find this  easier to understand.

Simon