How to read this map
Every claim this thesis makes is a box. Every line is one claim standing on another. The point of the map is that you can see what a piece of the argument rests on, and what would fall over if it turned out to be wrong.
Colour tells you how solid something is
Grey boxes are structure rather than evidence — chapters, scope boundaries, parts of the model being built.
Three things worth trying
- Click any box. The panel shows what it stands on, what published work argues against it, and which chapters carry it. Citations are links — they open the paper.
- Remove something. Select a box and choose “Remove this and see what falls”. Anything whose every support ran through it falls too; anything still holding another support is only weakened. It is the quickest way to find out which claims are load-bearing.
- Show objections. Hides everything except the published findings that argue against this thesis, and the claims they threaten.
Every control on the toolbar has a ? next to it that explains what it does. Nothing here is final — the map is a working document, and the weak points are marked deliberately rather than hidden.