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Metaweb:Semantics

From the Quicksilver Metaweb.

Metaweb Semantics need some thorough discussion here before any semantic link scheme can be designed for it.

Distinctions that are presently undisputed, that must be made in the text:

  • between fictional and historical characters
  • between those mentioned in a Neal Stephenson novel - and other Stephensonia - and those with no key mention or importance in his novels
  • likely, a similar distinction between actions they really took, and those that Neal has attributed to them via literary license
  • between a Metaweb:place and a Metaweb:person - sometimes confusing with noble titles that conjoin both