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If new predictions about physical processes were to follow from the principle of unfolding wholeness, it may be a deeper and more significant autonomous principle rather than merely a redescription of known results.

Alexander's conditional about the epistemic status of his proposed principle

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Is the principle of unfolding wholeness a new autonomous principle more fundamental than other physical laws, or merely a concise way of gathering together known results?
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Alexander's self-posed epistemic question about the status of his own principle

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The principle of unfolding wholeness is a new principle, not automatically given by non-linear dynamics, catastrophe theory, or bifurcation theory, necessary to explain the appearance of living structure.claim0.865
Alexander's central assertion that existing frameworks are insufficient and a genuinely new principle is required
The principle of unfolding wholeness is purely geometrical in character, not arithmetical and not energy-based, distinguishing it fundamentally from least action.claim0.851
Alexander's characterization of what makes his principle novel relative to least-action formulations
If the unfolding of wholeness is correctly followed, then every part becomes unique.hypothesis0.822
Prediction that adherence to the proper process guarantees uniqueness.
Principle of Unfolding Wholenessframework0.810
The principle that every natural process is governed by a step-by-step unfolding where each step preserves the structure of the wholeness, introduced in Chapter 1 and elaborated here.
An unfolding process, if faithfully applied, will dissolve any arbitrary initial image because reality and common sense will override it.claim0.806
Key principle about images vs. unfolding.
The unfolding of wholeness through structure-preserving transformations must inevitably create the fifteen properties.hypothesis0.806
In nature, unfolding often consists of a process that establishes local symmetries one by one.claim0.805
Connects biological morphogenesis to architectural process.
In nature the principle of unfolding wholeness creates living structure nearly all the time. Human designers, who are not constrained by this unfolding, can violate the wholeness if they wish to, and can therefore create non-living structure as often as they choose.quote0.801
Encapsulates the distinction between natural and human-made order, central to Alexander's critique of contemporary architecture.