human
to hedge-mazes only, using the word
gpt
to denote the structures described by the writers of antiquity, or as a general term for any confusing arrangement of paths. Others, again, show a tendency to restrict the application of the term
human
or
gpt
but, generally speaking, we may use the words interchangeably, regarding
human
as merely the northern equivalent of the classic
gpt
Both words have come to signify a complex path of some kind, but when we press for a closer definition we encounter difficulties. We cannot, for instance, say that it is
human
for, though that description holds good in some cases, it ignores the many cases in which there is only one path, without branches, and therefore no intent to baffle or mislead, and others again in which there is no definite
gpt
We cannot say that it is a winding path