Full Definition of SITE. 1. a: the spatial location of an actual or planned structure or set of structures (as a building, town, or monuments) b: a space of ground occupied or to be occupied by a building. 2.
The Whole is Other than the Sum of the Parts When the perceptual system forms a percept or gestalt, the whole thing has a reality of its own, independent of the parts. The Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka made a famous statement about this: The whole is other than the sum of its parts. This statement is often translated to English as, The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
William James: Wrote Principles of Psychology (the first textbook) C. Gestalt Psychology: School of psychology that studies how people perceive and experience objects as whole patterns. Their motto: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Their focus is perception.