You draw boundaries towards questions. I can ask many questions about wine:
“Do I enjoy drinking wine?”, “Do I get good value for money when I seek enjoyment by paying money for wine?”, “Is the wine inherently enjoyful?” and a bunch of others. Answering those questions is about drawing boundaries the same way as answering “Is a dolphin a fish?” is about drawing boundaries.
Your list doesn’t have any questions like that and thus there aren’t any boundaries to be drawn.
As far as the question of “What is a dolphin?” goes at Wikidata at the moment is our answer “A dolphin organisms known by a particular common name” because the word dolphin does not refer to a single species of animals or a taxon in the taxonomic tree. Speaking of dolphins when you reject categorizations that are not taxonomic accurate makes little sense in the first place.
As the links I’ve posted above indicate, no, lists don’t necessarily require questions to begin noticing joints and carving around them.
Questions are helpful however, to convey the guess I might already have and to point at the intension that others might build on/refute. And so...
Your list doesn’t have any questions like that
...I have had some candidate questions in the post since the beginning, and later even added some indication of the goal at the end.
EDIT: You also haven’t acknowledged/objected to my response to your “any attempt to analyse the meaning independent of the goals is confused”, so I’m not sure if that’s still an undercurrent here.
I have plenty of comments at Zack post you link and I don’t agree with it. As Thomas Khun argued, the fact that chemists and physicists disagree about whether helium is a molecule is no problem. Both communities have reasons to carve out the joints differently. Different paradigms have valid reasons to draw lines differently.
You draw boundaries towards questions. I can ask many questions about wine:
“Do I enjoy drinking wine?”, “Do I get good value for money when I seek enjoyment by paying money for wine?”, “Is the wine inherently enjoyful?” and a bunch of others. Answering those questions is about drawing boundaries the same way as answering “Is a dolphin a fish?” is about drawing boundaries.
Your list doesn’t have any questions like that and thus there aren’t any boundaries to be drawn.
As far as the question of “What is a dolphin?” goes at Wikidata at the moment is our answer “A dolphin organisms known by a particular common name” because the word dolphin does not refer to a single species of animals or a taxon in the taxonomic tree. Speaking of dolphins when you reject categorizations that are not taxonomic accurate makes little sense in the first place.
As the links I’ve posted above indicate, no, lists don’t necessarily require questions to begin noticing joints and carving around them.
Questions are helpful however, to convey the guess I might already have and to point at the intension that others might build on/refute. And so...
...I have had some candidate questions in the post since the beginning, and later even added some indication of the goal at the end.
EDIT: You also haven’t acknowledged/objected to my response to your “any attempt to analyse the meaning independent of the goals is confused”, so I’m not sure if that’s still an undercurrent here.
I have plenty of comments at Zack post you link and I don’t agree with it. As Thomas Khun argued, the fact that chemists and physicists disagree about whether helium is a molecule is no problem. Both communities have reasons to carve out the joints differently. Different paradigms have valid reasons to draw lines differently.