Pattern Language patterns enable rather than prescribe: they are conditions, not commands.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• A Pattern Language patterns are not analogies but literal gradients of care over space—each already encodes care relationships.claim0.814
• A Pattern Languageconcept0.792
  Alexander's earlier book (1977, Oxford University Press) containing 253 design patterns; extensively referenced throughout this chapter for functional examples of each of the fifteen properties
• The 253 patterns in A Pattern Language describe conflicting systems of forces and show configurations that eliminate stress cycles and release positive forces.claim0.790
  Functional interpretation of patterns.
• A pattern language will work well only to the extent that it embraces a whole — comprising everything needed for a complete building of that type — so that its patterns work together as a coherent systemhypothesis0.790
  Condition for success of an artificial pattern language stated in section 3
• Pattern Language represents a rearrangement of the political power in the design and building process.claim0.783
• The Pattern Language is a game that regulates the interaction between man and environment and its complexity lies in the interface of the generative rules coded in the patterns with the specific circumstances of its application.claim0.781
  Interpretation of Alexander’s later work as a rule-based game that requires contextual improvisation, though limited to pre-defined patterns.
• Patterns can be seen as active agents in the sense-making process.claim0.772
  Central speculative claim blurring the line between data and algorithms.
• A pattern language is a work of poetry and art, potentially as profound in its way as a building can beclaim0.771
  Alexander's characterization of the deep nature of pattern languages in section 13