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There's a great old (2005) blog post on this topic: Clay Shirky - Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags https://web.archive.org/web/2019111716252
by oftenwrong 5y ago
There's a great old (2005) blog post on this topic:
Clay Shirky - Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
https://web.archive.org/web/20191117162526/http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html https://web.archive.org/web/20191117162526/http://shirky.com...
- state_less 5y agoFolks may enjoy some of these old posts too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhonism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhonism For example, putting regions under a cold climates category, might not make sense to someone living near the pole where they would consider the same regions to be warm climates.
- Zababa 5y agoThanks, that was a great read. Tangentially related, but I wonder what's the impact of Windows having a really bad search. Maybe people are thus relying more on the folder hierarchies, and that influences how they think?