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The Second Law includes the definition of the partitions to which it applies- it specifically allows 'local' reductions in entropy, but for any partition which exhibits a local decrease in entropy, the complementary partition exhibits a greater total increase in entropy.
If you construct your partition creatively, consider the complementary partition which you are also constructing?
maybe you're thinking of partitions of actual space? He's talking about partitions of phase space.