Pyramid of knowledge
I've used it here and there, but never put it together, so on 2019-01-25 I decided to call it the "Pyramid of Knowledge".
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2025-01-06
The metaphor of boxes being stacked implicitly carries the nuance that the top box cannot stay in place without the bottom box
But in fact it can "float" as in [The Parable of the Floating Grass and the Trees
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