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Arrangement influences Persuasion. Activate to inspect this relation.Avant-garde causes Style. Activate to inspect this relation.Canon depends on Style. Activate to inspect this relation.Composition is part of Style. Activate to inspect this relation.Connoisseurship applies to Style. Activate to inspect this relation.Enthymeme requires Audience. Activate to inspect this relation.Ethos influences Audience. Activate to inspect this relation.Ethos is a Rhetorical Appeal. Activate to inspect this relation.Invention applies to Logos. Activate to inspect this relation.Invention precedes Arrangement. Activate to inspect this relation.Kairos influences Persuasion. Activate to inspect this relation.Logos depends on Enthymeme. Activate to inspect this relation.Logos is a Rhetorical Appeal. Activate to inspect this relation.Medium constrains Style. Activate to inspect this relation.Pathos applies to Audience. Activate to inspect this relation.Pathos is a Rhetorical Appeal. Activate to inspect this relation.Persuasion is a Social influence. Activate to inspect this relation.Persuasion is part of Rhetoric. Activate to inspect this relation.Rhetoric applies to Public sphere. Activate to inspect this relation.Rhetorical Appeal enables Persuasion. Activate to inspect this relation.Rhetorical Figure influences Pathos. Activate to inspect this relation.Rhetorical Situation influences Kairos. Activate to inspect this relation.Rhetorical Situation is part of Audience. Activate to inspect this relation.Style influences Period. Activate to inspect this relation.Style is part of Rhetorical Figure. Activate to inspect this relation.PathosAudienceRhetorical AppealRhetorical FigureEnthymemeEthosRhetorical SituationPersuasionLogosStyleKairosSocial influenceRhetoricArrangementInventionPeriodAvant-gardeCanonCompositionConnoisseurshipMediumPublic sphere
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15 concepts viewed through this lens. Bridge concepts connect this view to Art History, Communication Science, Comparative Literature, Literature….

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22 concepts25 relationships9 disciplines5 relation families

At a glance

Pathos is persuasion by arousing the emotions of the audience.

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Rhetoric
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Bridge concepts (9)

Just outside the lens — they connect it to other context.

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Structural observations about the concepts shown here — descriptions of this graph, not claims about the world.

  • This view connects 9 disciplines: Art History, Communication Science, Media Studies, Philosophy, Photography, Psychology, Rhetoric, Social Psychology, Theology.
  • Canon is a bridge concept — viewed here through Art History, Theology.
  • The connections here span 5 relation families.

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By discipline

ChemistryBiologyPhysicsMathematicsComputer ScienceGeologyMineralogyEconomics

By thinking pattern

Bayesian updatingCause and effectCompoundingConservationConstraintsDefense in depthDiffusion & spreadEmergenceEnergy transformationEntropy & irreversibilityEquilibriumFeedback loopIncentivesInformationLevels & hierarchyModularityNetworksOptimizationOscillationProbabilityRecursion & self-similarityScaleSignal vs noiseSource–pathway–receptorStocks and flowsSymmetry & invarianceThresholds & tipping pointsTrade-offsTriangulationVariation & selectionWaves

By journey

From a Leaf to the ClimateWhy Music Moves UsHow Machines LearnReasoning about a Leaf and the Climate

Concept collections

Concept collections are curated lenses onto the fabric — themed sets of ideas that recur across disciplines. They are not journeys; they are a way to read the graph.

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What this is

Start from one concept and expand outward. The view never shows everything at once — click a node to refocus, filter by relationship type, or switch to an accessible list.

One fabric

3750 concepts and 5051 typed relations form one connected component — no isolated silo.

How to read it

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