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We define a semantic network as "the collection of all the relationships that concepts have to other concepts, to percepts, to procedures, and to motor mechanisms" of the knowledge".

— John F. Sowa p. 76 as cited in: Jacques Demongeot (1988)

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To distinguish the meaningful graphs that represent real or possible situations in the external world, certain graphs are declared to be canonical.

Soon, the enterprise of the information age will find itself immobilized if it does not have the ability to tap the information resources within and without its boundaries.

Taxonomy is a Greek word which means an arrangement based on any kind of law or principle.

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