What is canon (from movie list)

[David]

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Steve wrote:

I have just 
> had to sort of create my own working definition of "canon" for the 
> sake of the Lexicon and that working definition has been more or 
> less accepted around here. Reading these posts has gotten me 
> thinking again about the whole question. I hate it when my house of 
> cards is toppled. 
> 

When I asked my original question I was dimly aware that there was a 
house of cards to be toppled - it's possible I think to pick even at 
Pippin's narrower definition of canon, by asking ourselves what words 
are and where their meaning comes from.  I'm a veteran of too many 
debates about more widely recognised canons. (Replies to OT-Chatter, 
please.)

But that house of cards is not the Lexicon, which is a brilliant 
site, and no worse for containing the outcomes of personal 
decisions.  The reductionist approach would lead to a much simpler 
Lexicon; in fact, I can reproduce it here:

I think, therefore I am.

Working definitions are just that: ones that work for their purpose.  
Please don't dismantle your house, Steve, we like it too much.

But I do rather like the idea of the catastrophic universe

David