Transcendent Wholeness

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• Wholenessconcept0.841
  Alexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
• All wholeness, not just color, may be considered ultimately as a kind of light, communicating with the transcendent realm where pure unity exists.claim0.805
• What exactly, then, is wholeness?question0.800
  Central question of the chapter, answered by defining wholeness as the structure of nested centers.
• The wholeness is a real structure, something geometrically concrete, not merely a general appreciation for unity.claim0.797
  Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
• unfolding of wholenessconcept0.796
  The process by which new centers emerge naturally from existing ones without forcing; the essence of morphogenetic sequences.
• Cultural Wholenessconcept0.795
  The claim that culture modifies the physical salience of centers in a place and is therefore part of wholeness in a physically real sense
• Wholeness and Centersframework0.788
  Overarching conceptual scheme from The Nature of Order where a whole makes its parts, which are called centers, and centers intensify each other.
• Wholeness is a neutral structure that simply exists; its degree of life or beauty follows from its internal cohesion without reference to opinion.claim0.783
  Posits that wholeness provides an objective foundation for aesthetics.