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<P>A more ideonomic characterization of hierarchy: (7) At the top or upward
is the thing or set of things that controls, dominates, influences, limits,
expresses, indicates, facilitates, e/vc the meaning, importance, behavior,
degrees of freedom, changes, possibilities, relationships, aspects, costs,
needs, outputs, e/vc of that below or dot-inward.
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