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 Holy Frack!
-{{Cquote|"As soon as we try to describe, precisely, why this particular thing is a center, we find that we have to invoke some kind of description in terms of other centers.  In [[:Category:Mathematics|mathematics]], such a concept is called [[Oxford-Dict:recursive|recursive]].  Grasping this idea, and grasping the fact that this bit of understanding is a positive step forward, and not problematic, is the key to understanding wholeness.  The apparent circularity here is - I believe - the crux of the problem of wholeness.  The reason that deep wholeness (or life) is so mysterious, is that centers are built from centers, wholeness is built from wholeness."|author=[[Wiki:ChristopherAlexander|Christopher Alexander]] (August 2003)|source=[[Wiki:ThePhenomenonOfLife|The Phenomenon Of Life]], p.118, ISBN 0195106393}}
+{{Cquote|"As soon as we try to describe, precisely, why this particular thing is a center, we find that we have to invoke some kind of description in terms of other centers.  In [[:Category:Mathematics|mathematics]], such a concept is called [[Cambridge-Dictionary:recursive|recursive]].  Grasping this idea, and grasping the fact that this bit of understanding is a positive step forward, and not problematic, is the key to understanding wholeness.  The apparent circularity here is - I believe - the crux of the problem of wholeness.  The reason that deep wholeness (or life) is so mysterious, is that centers are built from centers, wholeness is built from wholeness."|author=[[Wiki:ChristopherAlexander|Christopher Alexander]] (August 2003)|source=[[Wiki:ThePhenomenonOfLife|The Phenomenon Of Life]], p.118, ISBN 0195106393}}
 From [[:Category:FractalWiki|Wiki Fractality]].  Thanks Christophe!  I bought that book a few months ago, in preparation for graduate school?.
 From [[Wiki:ChristopherAlexander]]... forgot where.  This better explains some of my ideas about {{tag|wiki}}.  My ideas of WikiIndex:Versioning also fits in with these ideas, as well as [[Lion Kimbro]]'s [[Wiki:FederatedWiki|Federated Wiki]] idea... [[MarkDilley]]