>But I must concede that this phenomenon occurring on Wikipedia gives a lot of weight to his argument. It should give no weight at all to this argument. Arguin

>But I must concede that this phenomenon occurring on Wikipedia gives a lot of weight to his argument. It should give no weight at all to this argument. Arguing from metaphor is flawed to begin with, because the correctness metric is not correspondence with reality, but the degree a human mind will readily pattern-match on the metaphor. The empirical reason for this effect is that Wikipedia policy mandates that articles begin with a denotational definition of the subject, which moves up the hierarchy of abstraction. Were Wikipedia policy to begin pages with connotational definitions that move down the hierarchy of abstraction, we would not see this effect.