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institute:franciscan-orderFranciscan Order
Religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi, referenced in Alexander's argument about pleasing oneself and pleasing God.
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- St. Francis of Assisiaffiliated_withChristian saint who emphasized love of every living creature, a teaching cited as one path to the ground.
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- The complex, non-repeating order of a living neighborhood, analogous to Schrödinger's description of DNA.
- The straight, orthogonal geometries that arise naturally from structural and functional forces in built forms.
- The paper's tripartite framework distinguishing psychological reality (representations), causal reality (functional mechanisms), and physical reality (matter/energy)
- Alexander's lifelong pursuit of an architecture that embodies a deep, objective, and universal order.
- Low entropy, organized state; life maintains order by consuming negative entropy.
- Linear order on subsets of M used by Next Closure algorithm; equivalent to lexicographic order on incidence vectors.
- Four-volume work by Christopher Alexander providing foundational results for harmony-seeking computation, including the concept of wholeness and the fifteen properties.
- The partial order on classical probability distributions (Delta^n) that makes Shannon entropy a measurement on a domain.