[osis-core] Users Manual Bug List - 64. Person to human

[Chris Little]

> 64. Person to human
> 
> Section 13.12: I would suggest changing "person" to "human". As things 
> stand I don't know the definition of a human. Is Frodo a person or a 
> nonhuman. The two are not mutually exclusive. (Yes I know there is a big 
> argument about the question of Jesus and his humanity, but I think that 
> can be ignored for this purpose, although one might be able to argue that 
> all references to Jesus and to The Holy Spirit in John should be marked 
> with divineName as they are all part of the Deity. Personally I fall into 
> the Arian camp, but that is neither here nor there.) Submitted by: Jim 
> Schaad, jimsch@nwlink.com
> 
> Resolution:

Okay, the values we chose for <name> types ('geographic', 'holiday', 
'nonhuman', 'person' & 'ritual') are a bit confusing.

'person' is good because it encompases borderline stuff like Frodo and 
Jesus.  Even if we don't want to say that these cases are human or 
entirely human or only human, we can be certain they are people.  So 
'person' seems a reasonably good value.

Now Smaug or Behemoth are clearly not 'person', so 'nonhuman' seem 
reasonable values, assuming we don't add a 'monster' value or a 
'nonHumanLivingEntity' value.

In other words, I think we could clear up the confusion with just prose 
and a few examples (and no schema changes).

Another very important issue raised by this report is the range of 
referents to which <divineName> can apply.  Early on, we were allowing 
this to refer to any ol' name of any deity, but we eventually clarified 
that this can only be used for references to Yahweh, using that name in 
the underlying text--the stuff that would be rendered as small caps. 
Not all users are clear on this point.

--Chris