Simon Spero posted:
>*Example*:
>(1) Everything which is eaten by something is a food.
>(2) Everything that a carnivore eats is an animal. Everything that
>eats an animal is a carnivore.
>(3) Everything that a herbivore eats is a plant. Everything that eats
>a plant is a herbivore.
>(4) Every fly is an animal. Every antelope is an animal. Every flytrap is
>a plant.
I suppose for purposes of illustration, we should pretend that all of
these statements are true? They clearly are not, and exceptions can
be cited for most. While a fly is not an animal (it's an insect),
humans are animals, and most eat both plants and animals.
I have the same problem with FRBR. It presupposes all sorts of things
which are not in accord with the bibliographic universe and resource
utilization as I know it, just as the propositions above do not accord
with reality.
In both these cases, I get lost long before the conclusion.
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