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Originally Posted by tompe
You are talking navigation. The difference was ontological.
For me it is trivially true that flat tags cannot represent everything you can represent with folders (and vice versa). With folders you can represent that it is not allowed for a book to be a thriller and humorous at the same time. That you cannot say with flat tags.
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This subject is obviously not trivial. Perhaps you meant "virtually" true instead of "trivially" true?
To your point - Yes, with tags you can not represent that it is not allowed for a book to be a thriller and humorous at the same time.
(More broadly, so many double negatives means we're already on thin ice.)
I agree with your comment at a purely logical level, but I think you are arguing from an increasingly narrow platform. Moreover, if your rigid representation(no "not's") is the tipping point, then by your own example, what happens when a humorous thriller is written? It has no home? A new "folder"? Named? On the other hand, tags seem to "just work".