I've pondered the "taxonomies as trees" as insufficient and broken. What I arrived at as "maybe this will work" is taxonomy as a high-dimensional sponge, where a thing may rest at a given point in high dimensional space (where the dimensions are characteristics of that thing) and may or may not be clustered with other things on certain axes.
Sort of like how word/semantic clustering works in LLMs.
This obviously isn't a fully formed idea, but it might make creating taxonomies easier? Taxonomic clusters? Something like that.
Sort of like how word/semantic clustering works in LLMs.
This obviously isn't a fully formed idea, but it might make creating taxonomies easier? Taxonomic clusters? Something like that.