• Holistic -- all disciplines and facets contingent of definitions at the same time
• Linearity -- all objects and definitions are linear - correspond to matrix definitions and straight lines
• Finite state
• Digital -- everything defined by bounded intervals
• Hierarchical -- cascaded
• Smooth mapping top-down / bottom-up
• Not empirically-centered - not local-only oriented
  • Local description constrained by global principles - don't let the model fragment for the sake of immediate local convenience
• Every development located within a global context
• Supposedly this approach can contain and orient very sophisticate local or special-purpose models and frameworks

The argument is made that this design approach opens an approach to generality and universality which is capable of great breadth of inclusion. It suggests that the fundamental principles inherent in highly complex local-only or specialized empirical models are all found within the general guiding principles and "Ensemble" of primary definitions.

Everything is "made out of little boxes", and sometimes those boxes contain extremely complex objects.

The Closed Loop is an object of extremely generality, intended to contain or orient objects of much higher complexity, yet which embody the same design principles and fundamental definitions.