I think a crucial important first step in a discussion of the type "is X a Y or a Z" is that we have very clear definition of X, Y and Z. Unfortunately the art

I think a crucial important first step in a discussion of the type "is X a Y or a Z" is that we have very clear definition of X, Y and Z. Unfortunately the article isn't very clear about any of this, so then the discussion becomes a discussion about definitions. Which is useless. There's no objective definition of a term. Terms are artificial symbols designed to mean whatever we want them to mean. And they're often incredibly overloaded, or underspecified. Also coming to a thread about the nature of reality and talking about how there's no point in discussing the nature of reality is a contradiction of your own advice.