The Literary - Philosophy Continuum

One of the discussion topics that was brought up in class yesterday was whether or not Literary and Philosophical styles of writing were their own respective categories, or rather that they belong on a continuum of technique. Having taken a little time to contemplate this, I have been wondering about both sides quite a bit.

On the front of keeping them separated, I think that it would be more simple for the hope of trying to organize the situation at large. I say this because with the advent of being able to categorize any piece of work by simply declaring that it is either a piece of pure philosophy or an unspecified example of literature, we would be able to get through a lot of examples very quickly for not many works would fall into the pure philosophy category. The only difficulty this process of organization presents is the potential complication of setting the dividing line of what designates the pure philosophy form.

However, the potential to fix that problem is the second option that we had contemplated in our discussion, which would be to organize all of it onto a continuum. This seems at face value to make the most sense, for continuum's are very favorable of organization like this, where there is not necessarily an issue anymore of what the middle ground anymore. The real issue with this concept though is that there would be some serious difficulty in attempting to actually construct this continuum, and it would be very non-descript in its conclusions beyond simply giving an answer to the problem.

Thus, it appears that neither option is the wiser without further adaptation and quite a bit of effort to give elaborate examples; that is unless the goal was to achieve some simple argumentative conclusions. So I ask you oh fruitful blogging community, what do you think? can the continuum / non-continuum argument offer itself as a useful tool to us in this class? and which would you prefer?