Everything comes from the whole.

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

• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.819
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.
• A whole makes its parts, rather than the idea that a whole consists of parts.claim0.807
  Alexander's foundational assertion inverting conventional understanding of composition; central to understanding centers and the Fifteen Properties.
• where does it all come together?question0.805
  Pseudo-problem of a privileged homunculus in consciousness, dispelled by multi-scale perspective.
• Life comes directly from the wholeness; the degree of life arises from the way centers in the wholeness cohere to form a unity.claim0.801
  The fundamental thesis of the book: life is an emergent property of the structure of centers.
• the center is not made from parts. Rather, it would be more true to say that most of the parts are created by the wholeness.quote0.799
  Key reversal of the Cartesian parts-to-whole assumption: the whole generates the parts.
• The wholeconcept0.798
  The overarching coherence and unity that must be enhanced at every step; the target of all living process.
• Almost every person experiences the making of wholeness, like food.claim0.797
  Generalization from personal and student experience.
• Meaning of a whole (cf. sentence) should only depend on meanings of its parts (cf. words) and how they are fitted together (cf. grammar).concept0.795
  Canonical statement of Frege compositionality principle in formal linguistics; foundational to paper's analysis.