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From: Simon Spero <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 13:51:34 -0500
> There's a difference here which isn't quite captured when you skip
> Literary Identity as an entity in its own right. These differences come in
> to play when dealing with when dealing with different kinds of equivalence
> (when you can substitute one thing for another thing without changing
> meaning).
>
>
> 1. Different Name strings can refer to the same Literary Identity (e.g.
> "Charles Lutwidge Dodgson" and "Charles Dodgson").
> 2. Different persons can have the same Name string. (e.g. "Phillip J Fry"
> of Earth and "Phillip J Fry" of Hovering Squid World 6).
> 3. Having the same Name string is not sufficient to relate two different
> Persons to the same Literary Identity (see 2).
> 4. Literary Identities are related to at least one Person (works
> attributed to #$LewisCarroll-TheLiteraryIdentity were written by
> #$Charles-Dodgson-TheMan).
> 5. Being related to the same Literary Identity is not sufficient to make
> two people identical (e.g. Grant Naylor
> <http://viaf.org/viaf/85318646/>, the
> writer of "Red Dwarf", is a pseudonym for two people).
> 6. People who are related to a joint Literary Identity can have other,
> non-joint Literary Identities (e.g. Rob Grant and Doug Naylor).
> 7. Being related to the same Person is not sufficient to make two
> Literary Identities identical ( #$LewisCarroll-TheLiteraryIdentity is
> different from #$CharlesDodgson-TheLiteraryIdentity; works by one should be
> grouped separately from works by the other.
Add: 8. one person, several personas.
E.g. Bill Clinton (governor of Arkansas), Bill Clinton (president of USA), ... Bill Clinton (himself).
Dan
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