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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pedantic" data-source="post: 9220569" data-attributes="member: 6690965">It's a recurring argument in most fields that have taxonomy. You tend to end up with "lumpers" who will view items as being more defined by a similarity, and "splitters" who will view push for more exacting definitions that separate more items. A classic example is whether science fiction and fantasy are meaningfully separate genres; is it more significant that both deal with plot elements that lie outside contemporary reality, or that the source of those plot elements is different?I'm saying this is the same kind of problem, and the lumping position here is being used to serve the rhetorical purpose of narrowing RPG play down to one thing.</blockquote>