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- Core claim of §3.1, supported by regeneration, twinning, and kidney-tubule scaling data.
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- Final open question of the paper, left deliberately unresolved.
- The great difficulty hanging over the theory — the question of the legitimate origin of patterns that Alexander identifies as unresolved at the time of A Pattern Language
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- Practical advice that a solid pattern language makes personalized design feasible at scale.
- The deep methodological problem in pattern language theory: if patterns are derived from existing culture, they merely reiterate the status quo; if invented, they lack grounding
- The requirement that a pattern language must emanate as a whole from a situation and form a coherent complete system, not just a list of isolated solutions