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B.1.5.EW:3 - Forces

  • Familiar constituents make work possible, while their combination can introduce a difficulty absent from separate practice.
  • Encompassing requirements constrain the parts; the parts’ actual capabilities limit what the whole can achieve.
  • One action can serve several wholes, whose conditions can differ or conflict.
  • A short account can guide action; unnecessary decomposition consumes the attention needed to act.
  • The whole may be ongoing while only some of its constituents are active.
  • A planned connection helps design work, but actual enactment needs the performed connection.