#universality "[[道]]" is called "Dao" in English. The character is composed of the radicals "辵" and "首". "辵" represents the way a person walks and can be understood as the concept of a path or route. The radical "首" signifies the direction on this path. Therefore, Dao is a directional path (which can have two directions) and represents a guiding principle with a sense of direction. This concept has inclusive significance for compressing and organizing all knowledge because "the way of the Great Dao is to act in accordance with the principles of fairness and justice for all under heaven." This statement can be interpreted as: > The universal abstract concept can be applied to everything in the Universe. This fundamental guiding principle is closely related to the study of [[Topology]] and [[Category Theory]] because these mathematical expressions use arrows or directed paths to represent all things. # Dao in Decentralized Autonomous Organization [[Decentralized Autonomous Organization|DAO]] may also be short for [[Decentralized Autonomous Organization]]. This kind of organization should definitely follow the most abstract possible governance principle, which is [[Permanent/Design Pattern/SoG_Patterns/Dao|Dao]]([[道]] in Chinese). When the word DAO being considered as an organizational principle, it is still fitting the theme prescribed by the Chinese character, "[[道]]". As illustrated by [[Henry George]]'s [[@georgeSciencePoliticalEconomy|The Science of Political Economy]]. It is particularly relevant to read the original text from Chapter 7 [[The Knowledge Properly Called Science]]: <blockquote> This art consists in never beginning at the beginning, but in rushing into the subject in all its complications, or with some fact that is only an exception, or some circumstance, isolated, far-fetched or merely collateral, which does not belong to the essence of the question and goes for nothing in its solution.... Like a geometer who treating of triangles should begin with white triangles as most simple, in order to treat afterwards of blue triangles, then of red triangles, and so on. </blockquote> This quote should remind one of [[Arrow's Impossibility Theorem]].