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Originally posted by Spectator Beholder:
Perhaps [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]. But, as I told Unicorn in an e-mail to him, I've begun to suspect that there might be very few, or perhaps no true SIMs, because that most SIMs I've seen/heard off seems to contain at least a few adventure elements, making it kind of hard to say whenever we should think of it as a SIM, a SIM/ADV or an ADV with a few SIM elements.[This message has been edited by Spectator Beholder (edited 12-18-2002).]
So what you're saying is that, if you define a pure SIM to have *no* ADV elements *at all*, then there are none.
Doesn't that simply mean that definition of SIM is a useless definition? A classification has no inherent meaning or value if it does not discriminate. The purpose of a classification is to be able to split up some group of things nicely into subgroups, so that you can tell them apart.
Remember when Kumiko started that gigantic many-pages-long thread where he insisted that Minoru was a hopeless romantic, and it ultimately boiled down to a semantic debate? Can we, um, avoid that here?
[This message has been edited by Nandemonai (edited 12-18-2002).]