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claim:each-step-in-a-living-process-enhances-the-wholeEach step in a living process enhances the whole.
Core thesis of the chapter: all action in a living process aims at increasing the beauty, life, and coherence of the whole.
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- The wholeassociated_withThe overarching coherence and unity that must be enhanced at every step; the target of all living process.
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- Description of the author's painting process as a microcosm of a living process.
- Key claim about the source of realism in art.
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- Chapter 9: **The WholeintroducesThis chapter argues that every step in a living process must enhance the whole, using examples from drawing, zoning, St. Mark's Square, canyon design, and painting.
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Encapsulates the chapter's main message.
- Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.
- Restatement of the central principle in the context of the Claremont Canyon example.
- Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
- Essential feature of living process, making phenomenological experience the central criterion for evaluation.
- Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.