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was there any way in which one might, by observation of culture as it is, decide in what direction that culture ought to go in the future?

The deepest methodological question about pattern language theory — whether objective cultural unfolding is possible

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The proper unfolding of wholeness is both an unfolding of space from the culture which exists, and an unfolding of a new future culture from the culture of the present
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The core theoretical synthesis linking cultural wholeness to structure-preserving transformations

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Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.746
Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
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Universalist claim predicting cross-cultural generality.