The totality, a complex of rectilinear and curvilinear, level upon level of scale, arises naturally from unfolding and paying attention to the whole.

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

• The wholeness is a real structure, something geometrically concrete, not merely a general appreciation for unity.claim0.827
  Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
• The wholeness is an autonomous and global structure, which is induced by the details of the configuration. It is a real physical and mathematical structure in space — but it is created indirectly, by symmetries and other relationships which are induced in the geometry.quote0.818
  Load-bearing statement encapsulating the nature of wholeness as a real, induced structure.
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.801
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
• Wholeness is a real structure, an actual 'thing' in itself, not merely a way of focusing on the gestalt.claim0.799
  Asserts the ontological reality of wholeness as a physical/mathematical structure.
• The wholeness of any portion of the world is the system of larger and smaller centers, their connection and overlap.claim0.795
  Definitional claim that clarifies how wholeness is constituted.
• The wholeness W is a feature of physical space which appears everywhere and is susceptible to a clear mathematical definition.claim0.793
  Asserts the formal tractability of wholeness.
• Wholeness is a neutral structure that simply exists; its degree of life or beauty follows from its internal cohesion without reference to opinion.claim0.793
  Posits that wholeness provides an objective foundation for aesthetics.
• Within the framework of wholeness, value is an objective phenomenon which arises inevitably from the degree to which unfolding has been truthful—guided by the fifteen structure-preserving transformations.claim0.786
  A new view of ethics and aesthetics where goodness is equated to smooth unfolding from existing wholeness.