Zachriel
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Meanwhile, over at Teleological Blog, in discussions with Uncommon Descent denizen JoeG, Zachriel has discarded the term "nested hierarchy" in favor of
| Quote | The nested hierarchy pattern of interest is an ordered set such that each subset is strictly contained within its superset.
So the twigs on a tree, a cohort of Roman legionaries, descendents of an uncrossed lineage, are all examples of a nested hierarchy the pattern of interest. |
(Too bad mathematicians don’t have a name for such a hierarchical arrangement of subsets strictly contained within supersets.)
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