You hav added outer elements, section, article, ... for which I never saw much 
need, but did nothing for inner parts--and those I sorely missed.

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The solution is to realise that a paragraph, in HTML terms, is not a logical 
concept, but a structural one. In the fantastic example above, there are 
actually five paragraphs as defined by this speciication: one before the list, 
one for each bullet, and one after the list.

The markup for the above example could therefore be:

<p>For instance, this fantastic sentence has bullets relating to</p>
<ul>
 <li>wizards,
 <li>faster-than-light travel, and
 <li>telepathy,
</ul>
<p>and is further discussed below.</p>

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This is the same bad hack that writers have suffered since they have had 
software to do their formatting. (HTML allows at least some nesting; muSoft 
Word has none, nor Word Perfect.)
But your description of paragraph is very appropriate. A paragraph is not a 
grouping construct, except in, say novels, writing that is divided only by 
chapter and section. Instead, a paragraph is a block-level leaf node; 
something, therefore, that does not warrant its own HTML element (unless for a 
separator).
On the other hand, HTML definitely needs something that nests, even as 
blockquote nests. To chide those who use blockquote for nesting & (structural) 
indenting is, of course, right, but there is no construct that does that which 
they want. I suggest that one be made up, which here I call k:

<k>For instance, this fantastic sentence has bullets relating to
<ul>
 <li>wizards,
 <li>faster-than-light travel, and
 <li>telepathy,
</ul>
and is further discussed below.</k>

Div is not in the least a contender for this, because it has no default style, 
no function other than grouping.
There is a more definite problem with this sentence marked up as in the 
webpage: style to make it look as anyone who actually writes such a thing, when 
the list s elements are short, is not easily written unless there is now a 
construct for saying that for ol that follows p margin-top is 0, and likewise 
for p margin-bottom is 0, and when p follows ol its margin-top is 0, and ol s 
margin-bottom is 0. But if it is expressed as I suggest, then one can say that 
inside k ol s margin-top and margin-bottom are 0, and CSS already for a long 
while has that.
I know of no name for this that I call k, but it very often is used in some 
forms of technical writing, generally, to be sure, numbered--but that is only 
style. Indenting, too, is a valid means of showing subordination and nesting, 
if not too great.

Imagine something written with two levels of this k--maybe not all throughout, 
but at least here and there:
<k>
  <k>
  </k>
  <k>
  </k>
</k>
<k>
</k>
<k>
  <k>
  </k>
</k>
..
..
..
With style, one in quite a few ways can mark it up: the inner is indented, the 
outer less (an appropriate default); the inner has one bullet, the outer 
another; the inner has first-line indent, the outer not--and so on. (It becomes 
clear that there never was a need for ul or ol apart from a basic nesting 
element: with no attribute "type", it is the basic nesting element; with it, it 
is ul or ol.)

My writing is written in two levels, but here there is nothing but the most 
primitiv layout.



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