Help:Senses and editions

Different semantic names for the same term and editions of works are now being represented with Item subpages.

List of recurring abbreviations used in Item sense labels

(incomplete)

AA: anarchism (philosophy tag A)
Aa: psychoanalysis (philosophy tag Aa); case-sensitive
AE: anti-essentialism
AU: Australia (ISO country code)
BG: Anselme Bellegarrigue
BK: bourgeoisie; bourgeois class (Klasse)
CA: Canada (ISO country code)
CC: concise; short label to be used when long label is causing layout issues, or for any other reason an abbreviated label is useful
CL: center-Liberalism; generic Liberal-republicanism which is not right-Liberalism
CN: mainland China; People's Republic of China (ISO country code)
CU: Cuba (ISO country code)
DE: Deutschland; Germany (ISO country code)
EM: existential materialism (usual philosophy tag MX)
ES: Existentialist-Structuralist tradition (philosophy tag ES)
FF: fiction or fantasy (usual philosophy tag Fy)
FF: filter [low priority code]
GE: Georgia (ISO country code)
HB: House bill (bill or law; United States federal/state House of Representatives) [high priority code]
HB: Henri Bergson [low priority code]
HH: Heil Hitler; nazism or fascism [low priority code]
IL: Israel (ISO country code)
JS: (pronounced English) Joseph Stalin [low-priority code]
KD: Kris Dreemurr (Undertale-Deltarune series) [low-priority code]
KP: North Korea; Democratic People's Republic of Korea (ISO country code)
KR: South Korea; Republic of Korea (ISO country code)
IV: Trotskyism (philosophy tag IV (pronounced I.V. or Fourth))
MD: Marxist molecular democracy; MDem; Molecular Marxism (usual philosophy tag MX)
ML: mainstream Marxism-Leninism (philosophy tag ML)
- ML: Stalin's government / Communist Party of the Soviet Union (philosophy tag ML)
MM: model; fan theories about particular fictional work
MX: meta-Marxism; violet Marxism (philosophy tag MX)
- MA: meta-Marxism; violet Marxism — number A; first sense worth labeling MX
- MB: meta-Marxism; violet Marxism — number B; second sense worth labeling MX
- MC: meta-Marxism; violet Marxism — number C; third sense worth labeling MX
PK: proletariat; proletarian class (Klasse) [currently unused]
PK: Mother series; Earthbound series or protagonists [low-priority code]; Undertale protagonists
PS: Palestine (ISO country code)
RL: real life; sense temporarily treating a hypothetical or fictional thing as a material thing within the scope of its own defined reality
RU: Russian Federation (ISO country code)
SB: Senate bill (bill or law; United States federal/state Senate) [currently unused]
SC: "assume a spherical cow"
SN: sign, numeric; number with particular assigned significance
SU: Soviet Union — as overall formerly-existing population or country
TD: Tea Dragon Society; card depicts a fantasy creature named after tea, not a literal kind of tea [low-priority code]
TS: topic or subject; thematic focus of a proposition, thematic focus of a philosophy
TW: Taiwan; Republic of China (ISO country code)
UA: Ukraine (ISO country code)
US: United States (ISO country code)
VN: Vietnam (ISO country code)
XK: xkcd
ZA: South Africa (ISO country code)

Special cases

low-priority code: somewhat ad-hoc usage, don't treat this as the standard meaning of these letters

Sense finder

If you do not have easy access to a digital string generator, you can generate a random string using the table below.

(unmodified)
 1 A   2 B   3 C   4 D   5 E   6 F   7 G   8 H   9 I  10 J  11 K  12 L  13 M  14 N  15 O  16 P  17 Q  18 R  19 S  20 T  21 U  22 V  23 W  24 X  25 Y  26 Z

(using D20)
 1 A   2 B   3 C   4 D   5 F   6 G   7 K   8 L   9 M  10 N  11 P  12 Q  13 R  14 T  15 U  16 V  17 W  18 X  19 Y  20 Z

 1 B   2 C   3 D   4 F   5 G   6 H   7 J   8 K   9 L  10 M  11 N  12 P  13 Q  14 R  15 T  16 V  17 W  18 X  19 Y  20 Z

The choices of which letters to exclude here are totally arbitrary. If you want to give something a Sense ID with a particular meaning, it is fine to use any of the excluded letters.