Centers are labile foci of wholeness, not things, and are ideally suited to enhance and enlarge the whole while being fused into it.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.834
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• Wholeness and Centersframework0.834
  Overarching conceptual scheme from The Nature of Order where a whole makes its parts, which are called centers, and centers intensify each other.
• A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.832
• The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.claim0.831
  The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.827
  A key insight about position and context.
• The wholeness and field of centers are not merely cognitive artifacts but are linked to the functional behavior of the natural world and are at the foundation of physics and biology.claim0.825
  Counters the skeptical cognitive interpretation by asserting the objective reality of centers in nature.
• Centers are the fundamental entities of which the world is made.claim0.821
  Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.
• A real center starts many diameters outside its skin or boundary; the structure beyond contributes to the centeredness.claim0.816
  Key property of authentic centers; they are not isolated objects but embedded in a larger field.