[Sigia-l] The A>B, B>A problem

[Peter Van Dijck]

Is there a name for the problem when, if you are stuck with designing a 
simple hierarchy for the web, you have to choose between "Wine > France 
 > ..." or "France > Wine > ..." and there is no best choice because 
users have differing needs? I know this problem has come back in almost 
every taxonomy (that is a simple hierarchy) that I have ever done. So I 
was wondering if there exists a name for it? Library scientists?

If not, we should probably coin one...

Cheers,
Peter
(I'll kick the first person who mentions facets. That's not the question.)