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claim:function-is-simply-the-dynamic-aspect-of-wholenessFunction is simply the dynamic aspect of wholeness.
Reinterprets function not as a list of goals but as the harmony of moving centers.
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Concepts (1)
concept
- WholenessextendsAlexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
Questions (1)
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- Opening question that drives the chapter's enquiry.
Related by similarity (8)
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.
- Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
- Asserts the ontological reality of wholeness as a physical/mathematical structure.
- Asserts the formal tractability of wholeness.
- A new view of ethics and aesthetics where goodness is equated to smooth unfolding from existing wholeness.
- Posits that wholeness provides an objective foundation for aesthetics.
- Parallel between the role of wholeness in physics and architecture.
- Load-bearing statement encapsulating the nature of wholeness as a real, induced structure.
- Central question of the chapter, answered by defining wholeness as the structure of nested centers.