rgence,
and vergence; Orthogonality; Etc.

<P><U>Possible effects, values, or uses of hierarchies include: </U>Arbitrarily
large sets of things or elements can be connected, reduced, related, or
traced back to, or derived from, just a single thing, element:, point,
event, law, etc.--via a path that is at once <U>maximally</U> short, powerful,
comprehensive, logical, necessary, central, self-similar, ubiquitous, etc;
Causation, perturbation, government, etc can be shown to be, or treated
as being, completely