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Materials, shapes, smells, electricity, magnetism, gravity, gases, fluids, sounds, music, motion, chemical reactions, fire, people, animals, plants, words, concepts, and ideas

The enumerated categories of environmental variables that children engage with and that drive creativity and discovery.

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Theory of Loose Parts
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Nicholson's conceptual framework positing that environments enable creativity and learning when they contain movable, modifiable elements ('loose parts') rather than static, fixed structures.

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

Physical Materials, Shapes, and Phenomenaconcept0.848
There is evidence that all children love to interact with variables, such as materials and shapes, smells and other physical phenomena, such as electricity, magnetism, and gravity; media such as gases and fluids; sounds, music, and motion; chemical interactions, cooking and fire; and other people, and animals, plants, words, concepts and ideas. With all these things all children love to play, experiment, discover and invent and have fun.claim0.823
Nicholson's evidence-based claim about children's inherent drive to interact with diverse variables.
Plants can integrate chemical, electrical, optical, and mechanical signals to discriminate kin from non-kin and they can compete or cooperate with neighbouring organisms.claim0.767
Summary claim about plant cognitive abilities from S&C's review.
It is the material substance of walls, floors, steps, windows, and roof — and the configuration of how they are made — which governs whether living centers can emerge and fine structure adaptation can occurclaim0.762
Alexander's foundational claim linking material technique directly to the possibility of living architecture.
Nature can include buildings, and roads and bridges, together with rocks and soil.claim0.760
Space is a material whose most important feature is its capacity to form centers.claim0.759
Reiteration of a key premise from Book 1 within the new metaphysical framework.
The feeling of a material does not depend on what it is—it depends on how it is handled.claim0.753
Assertion that even concrete can have the feeling of precious materials through process.
Concepts are not just subjective mental constructs, but are objective features of a system's design: increments of functionality that were consciously introduced by a designer to serve particular purposes.concept0.752
Central definition from the abstract.