coherent wholes

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

• Wholenessconcept0.808
  Alexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
• The wholeconcept0.807
  The overarching coherence and unity that must be enhanced at every step; the target of all living process.
• Meaning of a whole (cf. sentence) should only depend on meanings of its parts (cf. words) and how they are fitted together (cf. grammar).concept0.796
  Canonical statement of Frege compositionality principle in formal linguistics; foundational to paper's analysis.
• larger wholesconcept0.789
  The broader field of centers that encompasses a given center; a successful center contributes to and is shaped by these larger wholes.
• Wholeness creates partsconcept0.785
  The idea that centers are not built from pre-existing parts; instead, parts are generated by the wholeness, like a whirlpool in a stream.
• What exactly, then, is wholeness?question0.783
  Central question of the chapter, answered by defining wholeness as the structure of nested centers.
• Wholeness as Nested System of Centersframework0.774
  Alexander's quasi-mathematical definition of wholeness as a recursively nested system of living centers displaying local symmetries, approximating the overall gestalt of a configuration
• Whole Governsconcept0.770
  The driving principle that in a living process the larger whole, even when only latent, always controls the shaping of the parts.