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As previously mentioned, Llull's graphs were neither static
taxonomical trees nor concept-structuring illustrations but an actual
net of links that allowed the user to explore in a combinatorial fashion
the relations that existed among the currently manipulated concepts.
Thus they were a prefiguration of modern so-called conceptual graphs
and semantic networks. They were meant to be not so static or
self-structuring but rather they presupposed a dynamic interpretation:
to know well the concepts meant -to Llull- to follow their
associations and explore their consequences. (The inherent dynamic
ontology such a vision gave of things was enthusiastically received by
philosophical and scientific innovators like the influential
l5th-century Nicholas of Cusa.)
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