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claim:exact-repetition-flies-in-the-face-of-the-fundamental-principle-of-unfoldingExact repetition flies in the face of the fundamental principle of unfolding.
Critique of modern structural repetition as contradictory to the idea that each part should be unique.
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- Claim about the universality and pervasiveness of the center-making process at all scales and phases.
- Alexander's characterization of what makes his principle novel relative to least-action formulations
- Key principle about images vs. unfolding.
- Alexander's self-posed epistemic question about the status of his own principle
- Alexander claims Book 2's unfolding process is a consequence of people learning to please themselves.
- Alexander's central assertion that existing frameworks are insufficient and a genuinely new principle is required
- In nature, unfolding often consists of a process that establishes local symmetries one by one.claim0.803Connects biological morphogenesis to architectural process.
- The principle that every natural process is governed by a step-by-step unfolding where each step preserves the structure of the wholeness, introduced in Chapter 1 and elaborated here.