Centers are above all, labile, they are foci of wholeness, they are not things, but regions, qualities, focal points of centeredness.

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• Wholeness and Centersframework0.863
  Overarching conceptual scheme from The Nature of Order where a whole makes its parts, which are called centers, and centers intensify each other.
• Centers are the fundamental entities of which the world is made.claim0.845
  Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.
• A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.845
• The wholeness and field of centers are not merely cognitive artifacts but are linked to the functional behavior of the natural world and are at the foundation of physics and biology.claim0.844
  Counters the skeptical cognitive interpretation by asserting the objective reality of centers in nature.
• A real center starts many diameters outside its skin or boundary; the structure beyond contributes to the centeredness.claim0.842
  Key property of authentic centers; they are not isolated objects but embedded in a larger field.
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.838
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• the center is not made from parts. Rather, it would be more true to say that most of the parts are created by the wholeness.quote0.825
  Key reversal of the Cartesian parts-to-whole assumption: the whole generates the parts.
• The real centers we see when we look at a situation in its wholeness control the real behavior of the thing, the life which develops there, and the feelings people have.claim0.825
  Asserts that functional outcomes are determined by the wholeness structure, not by abstract categories.