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claim:wholeness-is-a-neutral-structure-that-simply-exists-its-degree-of-life-or-beauty-follows-from-its-internal-cohesion-without-reference-to-opinionWholeness is a neutral structure that simply exists; its degree of life or beauty follows from its internal cohesion without reference to opinion.
Posits that wholeness provides an objective foundation for aesthetics.
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- WholenesssupportsAlexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
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- Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
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- Asserts the ontological reality of wholeness as a physical/mathematical structure.
- Load-bearing statement encapsulating the nature of wholeness as a real, induced structure.
- Asserts the formal tractability of wholeness.
- Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
- A new view of ethics and aesthetics where goodness is equated to smooth unfolding from existing wholeness.
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cosine ≥ 0.90Other entities that say roughly the same thing. May be merge candidates or independent restatements across papers.