The modular structure allows material to combine, interrelate, and recombine like "prose Tinkertoys."

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Once  material is broken up into self-contained modular units, the sections can be recombined in interesting ways.  To illustrate this technique, a prototype new article was created largely  "from parts" of other articles.   Later, an entire book was built in  the same manner.   (The results are  available for you to see in the "Recombination Lab" section of this site.)

Short sections of writing are also capable of being linked in other ways.  For example, each self-contained unit might support or corroborate another unit, or it might limit or refute another unit.   All told, the new structure allows the units to interrelate in about ten different standardized ways, which appear to represent a fairly complete set of  the logical ways in which any assertions or observations can interact with one another.

This makes the format suitable not only for casual forms of exchange, but also for formal, logical proofs, scientific and academic journals, etc.

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