thread: 2011-05-18 : Ben Lehman: Rules and their Functions
On 2011-05-24, Simon C wrote:
Taxonomies are easy to make and hard to defend.
There's this whole other bit we haven't really talked about, which is rules which ask questions of the fiction, vs. rules which ask questions of real-life things.
When this came up the first time I drew a little 3-way matrix with "Immediate-Continuous" "Mediating-Procedural" and "Fiction first-Real life first" as a way of classifying rules. Of course, as Ben points out in the original essay, all these categories blur into each other. The matrix was great until I tried mapping actual rules onto it, at which point it got very confusing.
