The properties of a text are revealed in their interconnection with other texts in the system.
A mirror mediates the thing it is reflecting and its image. Mediated knowledge is knowledge, for example, related through past experience and reflection which enables us to recognise things in the stream of impressions.
Mediation is important in the metabological understanding of the hypertext and in understanding how hypertextual relations participate in the acquisition of knowledge by individuals on the web.
