Real centers differ from named parts

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

• Centers are always made of other centers.quote0.797
  Encapsulates the recursive nature of centers, the key to understanding wholeness.
• A real center starts many diameters outside its skin or boundary; the structure beyond contributes to the centeredness.claim0.791
  Key property of authentic centers; they are not isolated objects but embedded in a larger field.
• Centers are made of centers.claim0.787
  The recursive composition principle, key to understanding wholeness.
• the center is not made from parts. Rather, it would be more true to say that most of the parts are created by the wholeness.quote0.781
  Key reversal of the Cartesian parts-to-whole assumption: the whole generates the parts.
• The real character of the world, its flesh, is governed by the centers in the geometry.claim0.778
  Strong statement that all qualitative aspects of places and situations are produced by the spatial system of centers.
• Centers themselves have life.claim0.771
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• The real centers we see when we look at a situation in its wholeness control the real behavior of the thing, the life which develops there, and the feelings people have.claim0.769
  Asserts that functional outcomes are determined by the wholeness structure, not by abstract categories.
• Centers are above all, labile, they are foci of wholeness, they are not things, but regions, qualities, focal points of centeredness.quote0.765
  Key definition capturing the non-atomic, relational nature of centers as fields rather than objects.