The part is influenced by its position in the whole and is made to increase the life of the emerging whole in its large aspects.

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• It is always the whole which governs in a living process; even when only latent, the greater whole is the driving force controlling the shaping of parts.claim0.830
  Central principle distinguishing structure-preserving from structure-destroying processes.
• At every step, the process does its utmost to enhance the structure of the whole, and shapes its parts to make this enhancement happen.claim0.816
  Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.
• A whole makes its parts, rather than the idea that a whole consists of parts.claim0.814
  Alexander's foundational assertion inverting conventional understanding of composition; central to understanding centers and the Fifteen Properties.
• Each person is nourished, made more whole, by making something which has life.claim0.814
• "It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.799
  Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.
• 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.quote0.798
  Key reversal of the Cartesian parts-to-whole assumption: the whole generates the parts.
• Wholeness creates partsconcept0.798
  The idea that centers are not built from pre-existing parts; instead, parts are generated by the wholeness, like a whirlpool in a stream.
• The intricate and context-specific adaptation that shapes every detail differently is a necessary structural feature of all life.claim0.795
  Foundational claim about the necessity of adaptation for life in structures.