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quote:the-fifteen-properties-are-not-merely-visual-features-which-appear-in-works-of-art-they-must-be-fundamental-to-the-appearance-of-life-in-all-centers-that-are-generated-or-created-in-any-systemThe fifteen properties are not merely visual features which appear in works of art. ... they must be fundamental to the appearance of life in all centers that are generated or created in any system.
Foundation of the chapter's argument that the properties transcend aesthetics and are fundamental to all physical reality.
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- The chapter's central thesis, arguing that the properties are necessary manifestations of wholeness in any generated system.
- Justification for using the fifteen transformations as a foundation.
- Alexander's retrospective account of how his theory evolved, demoting the fifteen properties from foundational to derivative status.
- Alexander's claim that living structure properties are not incidental but are the operative mechanisms of wholeness-preserving transformation
- Proposed as the reason the properties appear in functionally stable or semistable systems.
- The author explicitly ties the empirical photographs to his theoretical structure.