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"Wholeness and feeling are two sides of a single reality."

Concise formulation of the chapter's central identity claim between objective structure and subjective experience

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Wholeness and feeling are two sides of a single reality; the external phenomenon of wholeness and the internal experience of personal feeling are, at some level, one and the same thing
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The central identity claim of the chapter linking objective structure to subjective experience

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A person's own feeling of wholeness is the very best criterion for the wholeness of a thing he is trying to make.claim0.847
Almost every person experiences the making of wholeness, like food.claim0.823
Generalization from personal and student experience.
Feeling (of wholeness)concept0.823
The experiential correlate of deep wholeness; the personal, emotional recognition of life in a structure.
The wholeness is a real structure, something geometrically concrete, not merely a general appreciation for unity.claim0.820
Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
Wholeness can be felt; using feeling to grasp the whole is a move towards precision.claim0.819
To see wholeness as it is requires purity of mind, because thoughts, mental constructs, theories, ideas, and images all interfere with perception of wholeness and make it difficult to see.claim0.816
A cognitive‑perceptual explanation drawn from the earlier HUGGINS & ALEXANDER experiment.
Wholeness is a neutral structure that simply exists; its degree of life or beauty follows from its internal cohesion without reference to opinion.claim0.812
Posits that wholeness provides an objective foundation for aesthetics.
Wholeness is a fundamental part of physics, governing the behavior of electrons in the two-slit experiment over and above mechanical forces.claim0.810
Extends the scope of wholeness to quantum mechanics, interpreting the two-slit experiment through centers.