On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Keston Sutherland wrote:
> By the way, what -is- the current qualification for the post of
> 'Cambridge' poet? Is Riley one really?
It depends on which Riley, and which classification scheme. There are two
classificatory methods which apply (on the whole):
1. genetic coding : this is the linear descendant of taxonomic
classification - you look for a fixed string of events or symptoms, when
you get your match, you tick the form, and pop the fox in the box.
2. consensoid : if it's asserted on three or more occasions that a shape
fits in a box, assume that it does until evidence to the contrary emerges.
This is by far the most common method.
There are others, of course, such as
3. convenience : look, everyone knows that string isn't glue, but they're
both used for fixing things and we haven't got any more spare boxes.
On these bases, irrespective of the answer to your first question, the
answer to your second, in any of the three cases, is probably "probably".
I'd like to believe that helps, but...
RC
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