I'm kinda making a database of common knowledge, like Cyc but smaller. It is basically an ontology about every concept (or in my case just some more common ones).
Currently I'm a little puzzled about how can you categorize physical objects.
You can say there are cars, planes, homes, hammers, guns; You can generalize and say there are vehicles, shelter and tools... So basically I'm asking for some way to split everything you can touch into as few general categories as possible. Or some advice on doing that.
Sorry if I don't make this very clear.
Things that serve our basic needs (food, water, shelter) vs. things that don't?
Porn, that itself will get you're sight some good traffic.
Class them by size.
matter and energy
Subjective and objective.
I would do requirements, luxuries, and neutral.
How high they get you
Hard, soft, metallic, fabric, spongy, plastic, slick, and rough.
Put multiple categories for each object. IE a gun would go under tool, weapon, metal, starts with G, what it's weight is, etc. Then something like a crowbar would go under tool and metal (Maybe weapon depending if you're Gordon Freeman) but it won't go under G.
Do it by weight, the weight of an object is know by everyone.
A and not A
Wa' choo talkin' bout' Willis?
Animal, vegetable, mineral
Copy eBay's categories
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