Betweenness Creates Emergent Wholes

Betweenness is not merely the gap between two things but the irreducible relationship in which the parties become something new; a relationship constitutes who we are, and the meaning resides not in the isolated parts nor in the gaps but in the entire indecomposable whole—just as individually meaningless musical notes combine into music that means everything, or sodium and chlorine combine into salt, demonstrating that something genuinely new arises from relationship.