arborescent.
Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to that of a tree; branching.
Meaning & usage
Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to that of a tree; branching.
Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (as opposed to the rhizome theory).
Gilles Deleuze criticizes the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages, which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory.
Where this word comes from
From Latin arborēscēns, present active participle of arborēscō (“become a tree”). First attested around 1675. The philosophical sense refers to the way genealogy trees are drawn.
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