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Emphasizes the necessity of a form language for achieving living structure.
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- Chapter 16: Form Language And StyleintroducesThe chapter argues that creating living structure requires a form language, and proposes that the fifteen structure-preserving transformations can serve as the basis for such a language.
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- Central thesis of the chapter: form language is a prerequisite for living structure.
- Defines living structure as the product of a truthful unfolding process that respects and preserves existing wholeness.
- Argues that living process alone is insufficient without a suitable form language.
- Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
- Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.850A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
- Defines the requirement for an effective form language.