I like the second link. From a network scientists perspective, one way how to model such structures is by overlapping hierarchical stochastic block models, or generally “community structure”. (Alexander’s essay predates network science by several decades.)
Which also makes “partonomy” and “mereonomy” possibly problematic labels (because of tree structures).
I like the second link. From a network scientists perspective, one way how to model such structures is by overlapping hierarchical stochastic block models, or generally “community structure”. (Alexander’s essay predates network science by several decades.)
Which also makes “partonomy” and “mereonomy” possibly problematic labels (because of tree structures).