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concept:direct-connection-between-person-and-wholenessDirect Connection Between Person and Wholeness
The idea that a person's wholeness is directly linked to the wholeness in their environment.
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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.
- Alexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
- The idea that centers are not built from pre-existing parts; instead, parts are generated by the wholeness, like a whirlpool in a stream.
- Load-bearing statement of the primacy of relatedness.
- Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).