The opposite of hierarchy
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Cholarchy isn't in the
Cholarchy isn't in the OED.Someone elsewhere claims that the opposite of hierarchy is 'heterarchy', but the OED says that this is "the rule of an alien".
Mostly, i'm wondering about the opposite of meta. And it's no idle pondering - i've got a variable to name!
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Tom, Cholarchy doesn't seem
Tom,Cholarchy doesn't seem to be making many inroads if Google hit counting is anything to go by : http://www.google.ie/search?q=cholarchy
The OED (and Webster!) definitions are very odd - very alien.
Plenty of hits for heterarchy out there relating it to hierarchy in one form or another. It even has the honor of a page on Wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterarchy
Sean
Heterarchy and semilattice
Great post - I found it searching for the antonym to meta... too bad you haven't figured out that one yet.But there are a couple other concepts for what you're looking at. The first one is "semi-lattice"
It's a term from mathematics - a lattice is a graph structure where every point is connected to every other one. A hierarchy is where every point has - at most - one parent, but can have multiple children. In a semi-lattice, each point can have multiple parents as well, but isn't connected to everything.
An less rigorous way to approach it is to use the term "heterarchy", found in Frederick Turner's "A Culture of Hope" - a more philosophical look.
Daniel
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