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Gestalt psychological concept for the property that makes figures stand out as wholes; identified by Alexander as a precursor to his concept of degree of life
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- Degree of lifeanalogous_toThe measure of how much living structure a thing possesses, ranging from high (tea bowl) to low (computer casing).
- Gestalt PsychologyintroducesEarly 20th-century school (Wertheimer, Koehler, Koffka) focusing on perception and cognition of wholeness that inspired Alexander's experimental work on configuration perception.
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- Gestalt psychology's laws of coherence describing why some groupings are stronger; Alexander relates them to centers.
- Buddhist concept formalised as unconstrained QRF deployment; knowing-how rather than knowing-that in the contextual structure of experience
- Buddhist concept of wisdom; paired with compassion as two wings of aligned action in the bodhisattva ideal