The step of controlled reflection we just took can be repeated at will, as suggested by the following series of forms:
Written inline, we have the series
and so on, whose general form is
With this move we have passed beyond the graph-theoretical form of rooted trees to what graph theorists know as rooted cacti.
I will discuss this cactus language and its logical interpretations next.
cc: Systems Science • Structural Modeling • Ontolog Forum • Laws of Form • Cybernetics