Fig. 4

Compositional Building Block (CBB) Granular Perspective. The different building blocks are granulated according to the direct proper parthood granulation relation (the large dark arrows). The granulation is of the non-scale dependent single-relation-type granularity type (nrG [61]), and uses the combination of the granulation relation together with the common properties of all categories of the building block type as its granulation criterion. Due to the cumulative constitutive organization, finer-level building block entities can be considered to be parts associated with coarser-level building block entities, for instance, ECM being an associated part of a eukaryotic cell