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Idea-Native Discovery

Definition

A discovery paradigm where ideas (concepts, themes, symbols, patterns) are first-class navigational objects rather than metadata attached to documents. Users navigate a landscape of ideas and their relationships, with documents appearing as manifestations of those ideas.

Example

Instead of searching for 'books about climate change', a user enters 'climate change' as an idea, sees its relationships to 'greenhouse effect', 'climate justice', 'adaptation vs mitigation', and can explore each—with books, articles, and films appearing as manifestations of each idea.