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How Do We Structure Knowledge? … Enter the Rhizome
The trivium = logic, grammar, rhetoric.
The quadrivium = arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.
Is the trivium about the foundation of language, and the quadrivium about the foundation of math?
Grammar is articulation (the sentence), Logic is the flow of causality (the paragraph), rhetoric is the larger structure and how it persuades (structure
... See moreUsers can remix and connect ideas in multiple overlapping hierarchies, with each unit of information becoming a node in a dynamic network. Any given node can occupy multiple positions simultaneously, convey information through defined relationships, and populate changes throughout the graph. With weightings assigned to the strength of relationships
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Most germane for our purposes, knowledge, too, can be analyzed as a network. In this case, nodes can be pieces of information, or experiences, or words, or knowers themselves, while the edges can be the relationships between those pieces of information, those experiences, words, or knowers.