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Re:Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies by dredmorbius on Saturday April 11, 2020 @07:20PM (#22844935)
Networked filesystems can approach multiple-hierarchy relations. Similarly for systems such as the WWW.

Nonhierarchical associative structures tend to hit a complexity explosion threshold after a time (though arguably the same criticism might be made of hierarchical classifications) in which categories simply multiply.

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Re:Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies by wenc on Saturday April 11, 2020 @08:13PM (#22845148)
Yes. For a WWW example, Wikipedia has multiple hierarchies, represented by multiple Categories at the bottom of every page (which in turn can belong to multiple Categories). This permits arbitrary level of hierarchy.
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Re:Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies by dredmorbius on Sunday April 12, 2020 @06:39AM (#22847259)
Wikipedia also does have a nominal overall categorisation, FWIW:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Categories

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