One structure, several renderings

What survives when the same conceptual structure is rendered as text, symbolic relations, a matrix, branches, or a temporal map?

Formülasyon

Treat representational transformations as research objects: preserve the operations and unresolved relations through changes of display, rather than treating the latest diagram as the object itself.

Gerilim

Keeping the visual pattern is not necessarily keeping the conceptual operation.

Açık soru

Which relationships survive both changing the display and replacing the vocabulary?