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Pxtl on June 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tagsistant: semantic filesystem for Linux

But then don't you have the same probelm of the limits of taxonomies and you start thinking "well is this tag a member of A or B? It should be a member of both" and then you need to tag the tags. Turtles all the way down.

nerdponx on June 14, 2017 [–]

That's the advantage of tags vs true directories. A tag could have mutiple parent tags.

Of course, that raises the question of what happens when you encounter a cycle in the tag graph.

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