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concept:salience-of-centersSalience of Centers
The relative strength or prominence of a center within a wholeness field; argued to be physically modified by culture and context
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
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- Wholenessassociated_withAlexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
Related by similarity (8)
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.
- Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
- Question posed after describing the plenum, answered by the window metaphor.
- The overall configuration of interrelated centers that constitutes a whole.
- Configurational entities existing implicitly in a structure; guide perception and generation of next morphogenetic step; exemplified in St Mark's square cycles.
- The quality of a center that intensifies when it helps a larger center; the vital core of every center.
- Overarching conceptual scheme from The Nature of Order where a whole makes its parts, which are called centers, and centers intensify each other.
- The explicit recursive definition that underpins living structure.
- One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.