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It Is A Common Experience That Attempts To Solve Just One Piece Of A Problem First, Then Others, And So On, Lead To Endless Involutions. You No Sooner Solve One Aspect Of A Thing, Than Another Point Is Out Of Point. And When You Correct That One, Something Else Goes Wrong. You Go Round And Round In Circles, Unable To Produce A Form That Is Thoroughly Right.

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It Is A Common Experience That Attempts

Christopher Alexander

It Is A Common Experience That Attempts To Solve Just One Piece Of A Problem First, Then Others, And So On, Lead To Endless Involutions. You No Sooner Solve One Aspect Of A Thing, Than Another Point Is Out Of Point. And When You Correct That One, Something Else Goes Wrong. You Go Round And Round In Circles, Unable To Produce A Form That Is Thoroughly Right.

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