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Intertwingularity

Intertwingularity is a portmanteau of the words intertwined and intermingled, coined by information-technology theorist Ted Nelson in 1974 to express the dense and interconnected relationships in human knowledge. The term is now commonly used to describe semantic systems of organization that are non-sequential, non-hierarchical, and which are…

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Intertwingularity

Nodes47
Edges46
Triples56
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.042553
Components1

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Intertwingularity

Top relations

related to Academic · 14
Intertwingularity → April, Chapman University, Douglas Dechow, He, In, Influence, Intertwingled, Nelson's, Often, One, Ted Nelson, Ted Nelson's, The, The Work
related to Information systems and design · 12
Intertwingularity → In, In Ambient Findability, Information Changes Everything, Intertwingled, Morville, Nelson, Nelson's, Peter Morville, Project Xanadu, What We Find Changes, Who We Become, World Wide Web
related to Computer Lib/Dream Machines · 10
Intertwingularity → Computer Lib, Dream Machines, Engelbart, Gutenberg, Gutenberg's, Hierarchical, In Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Nelson, Pask, The
related to Uses and implementations · 8
Intertwingularity → Andries, Branching, Brown University, Dam, HES, Hypertext Editing System, Nelson, Project Xanadu
related to Origin and theory · 7
Intertwingularity → As We May Think, Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Nelson, Nelson's, Project Xanadu, The, Vannevar Bush's
related to Philosophy · 4
Intertwingularity → Aristotle, He, Heraclitus, Nelson
is a · 1
Intertwingularity → portmanteau of the words intertwined and intermingled

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nelson xanadu project hierarchical systems knowledge hypertext intertwingled ted organization computer lib dream machines nelson's describe information used first work

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Intertwingularityis aportmanteau of the words intertwined and intermingled0.90text
Intertwingularityrelated to AcademicThe0.60section
Intertwingularityrelated to AcademicIntertwingled0.60section
Intertwingularityrelated to AcademicThe Work0.60section
Intertwingularityrelated to AcademicInfluence0.60section
Intertwingularityrelated to AcademicTed Nelson0.60section
Intertwingularityrelated to AcademicApril0.60section
Intertwingularityrelated to AcademicChapman University0.60section
Intertwingularityrelated to AcademicNelson's0.60section
Intertwingularityrelated to AcademicOne0.60section
Intertwingularityrelated to AcademicDouglas Dechow0.60section
Intertwingularityrelated to AcademicIn0.60section

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