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.

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• Centers are made of centers.claim0.886
  The recursive composition principle, key to understanding wholeness.
• Centers are always made of other centers.quote0.866
  Encapsulates the recursive nature of centers, the key to understanding wholeness.
• A whole makes its parts, rather than the idea that a whole consists of parts.claim0.839
  Alexander's foundational assertion inverting conventional understanding of composition; central to understanding centers and the Fifteen Properties.
• Wholeness creates partsconcept0.832
  The idea that centers are not built from pre-existing parts; instead, parts are generated by the wholeness, like a whirlpool in a stream.
• Centers are the fundamental entities of which the world is made.claim0.827
  Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.
• Centers are above all, labile, they are foci of wholeness, they are not things, but regions, qualities, focal points of centeredness.quote0.825
  Key definition capturing the non-atomic, relational nature of centers as fields rather than objects.
• The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.809
  Focus on anything else yields something else.
• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.807
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.