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<blockquote data-quote="Xetheral" data-source="post: 8434214" data-attributes="member: 6802765"><p>I think it is worth going to the dictionary here, as you appear to be arguing that I am using the word "spectrum" improperly.</p><p></p><p>Here's <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spectrum" target="_blank">Merriam-Webster's definition</a>.</p><p></p><p>Definition 1b is the relevant technical definition, and definition 2a as the relevant colloquial definition. My usage of the term "spectrum" satisfies either definition. There is no requirement that a spectrum have specific exemplars/determinates along the range, only that the range exist as a continuum of a specific characteristic (or characteristic<em>s</em>, as in the listed example of a mass spectrum that has two dimensions: mass and charge).</p><p></p><p>The sandbox spectrum as I've defined it in this thread is a continuum of campaigns based on how the percentage of occasions on which players are expected (based on that campaigns social contract) to select their strategic choices from a list offered by the GM rather than being able to make such choices without that constraint. That easily satisfies either definition: (1b) it is a continuum resembling a color spectrum by consisting of an ordered arrangement by a particular characteristic, and (2a) it is a continuous sequence or range. For my usage of the term "spectrum" to be improper, it would need to satisfy <em>neither</em> definition.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If I were using the sandbox spectrum to try to describe the "range of possible approaches to RPGs" or the "range of possible approaches to D&D" then you would have a valid complaint. But I'm explicitly <em>not</em> doing that--I've stated from the beginning that the spectrum describes only those campaigns that fit on it.</p><p></p><p>If you simply want to caution against using non-general analytical tools too broadly, I'll wholeheartedly support you. But not every analysis needs to be made in the general case, and limited tools are useful for looking at the domains on which they operate so long as one is cognizant not to try to generalize outside that domain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xetheral, post: 8434214, member: 6802765"] I think it is worth going to the dictionary here, as you appear to be arguing that I am using the word "spectrum" improperly. Here's [URL='https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spectrum']Merriam-Webster's definition[/URL]. Definition 1b is the relevant technical definition, and definition 2a as the relevant colloquial definition. My usage of the term "spectrum" satisfies either definition. There is no requirement that a spectrum have specific exemplars/determinates along the range, only that the range exist as a continuum of a specific characteristic (or characteristic[I]s[/I], as in the listed example of a mass spectrum that has two dimensions: mass and charge). The sandbox spectrum as I've defined it in this thread is a continuum of campaigns based on how the percentage of occasions on which players are expected (based on that campaigns social contract) to select their strategic choices from a list offered by the GM rather than being able to make such choices without that constraint. That easily satisfies either definition: (1b) it is a continuum resembling a color spectrum by consisting of an ordered arrangement by a particular characteristic, and (2a) it is a continuous sequence or range. For my usage of the term "spectrum" to be improper, it would need to satisfy [I]neither[/I] definition. If I were using the sandbox spectrum to try to describe the "range of possible approaches to RPGs" or the "range of possible approaches to D&D" then you would have a valid complaint. But I'm explicitly [I]not[/I] doing that--I've stated from the beginning that the spectrum describes only those campaigns that fit on it. If you simply want to caution against using non-general analytical tools too broadly, I'll wholeheartedly support you. But not every analysis needs to be made in the general case, and limited tools are useful for looking at the domains on which they operate so long as one is cognizant not to try to generalize outside that domain. [/QUOTE]
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