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A hierarchy (in Greek ''hieros'', sacred, and ''arkho'', rule) is a system of ranking and organizing things.

Hierarchy is a subset of [[context]]. Human knowledge is hierarchical, because higher-level abstractions depend on lower-level knowledge, all the way down to perceptual evidence. For example, in the simple case of the conceptual chain from the higher concept "furniture" to "coffee table":

<center>'''Furniture [Abstract from Abstraction] -> Table [Concept] -> Coffee Table [Percept]'''</center>

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