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		_gfwu on April 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on... No, it's the difference between normative and descriptive categorizations.

CRConrad on April 19, 2023 [–]

But deciding that some concept A is defined by criterion / set-of-criteria B is itself normative, a definition by fiat.

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