[teawrecks]

The point of multihop, tor or otherwise, is for each node in the route to not know what the other knows. The first node sees packets coming from you, but not where they're going. The second see's where they're going but doesn't know where they're from (and vice versa). If the two nodes exchange this info (ex. if same person runs both nodes) then there's no point. Nothing is gained, you just incur the overhead of the extra hop.

[INTPenis]

Where is this defined? Because the word multi-hop only implies more than one hop. Anything else needs to be defined as a specific algorithm, like onion routing for example. That's why I think this is semantics.