Hitches : Are they "knots", like bends ? If they are, where are their nubs ?

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Thank you SS369. A brave reader !  :) 

@SS369 post:4

The “Neutral” parts are , imo, part of the knot. I don’t feel that these so called neutral parts are in fact neutral. They play an important role in those particular knots.

Sure they do ! However, I had to distinguish them from the segments of the “knot”, through which the tensile forces run.

@X1 post:8

I had to use this simple “thought experiment” in order to clarify what I had meant by this “non-functioning [neutral] elements” neologism - because any segment simply penetrating and/or interwoven within the knot s nub does affect its form, by its mere spatial presence within the knot, by the bulk of its body ( so, it makes a difference, regarding the shape and place of the functioning elements as well ). [The main line or the pole]…do alter the flow of the tensile forces within the functioning elements, although its presence is not necessary for the knot - i.e., if and while the knot is loaded…, it will remain knotted, even in their absence, albeit in a very different form.