In music... a Lumper might think of only 2 types of music -- instrumentals vs songs with vocals. A Splitter says there are 1000s of genres because even within sub-category of rap music, East coast Miami rap is totally different and 180 degrees opposite from West coast Los Angeles rap.
Lumping vs Splitting type of thinking happens in programming topics too. E.g. A lumper has no problem saying, "C/C++ are low-level languages with manual memory management" ; but a splitter will object with, "I hate it when C and C++ are lumped together! They are TOTALLY different languages!"
Depending on what you focus on, everybody's customized taxonomy is "correct".
This thread's article divides drama situations into 37 buckets. And another person divides stories into 7 types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots
In music... a Lumper might think of only 2 types of music -- instrumentals vs songs with vocals. A Splitter says there are 1000s of genres because even within sub-category of rap music, East coast Miami rap is totally different and 180 degrees opposite from West coast Los Angeles rap.
Lumping vs Splitting type of thinking happens in programming topics too. E.g. A lumper has no problem saying, "C/C++ are low-level languages with manual memory management" ; but a splitter will object with, "I hate it when C and C++ are lumped together! They are TOTALLY different languages!"
Depending on what you focus on, everybody's customized taxonomy is "correct".