Life is a pervasive quality that includes ordinary biological life but also a kind of life in stones, concrete, and wood posts.

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• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city.quote0.882
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.
• Life is exactly that property of space in which each spot becomes unique according to its place in the larger scheme of things.claim0.870
  Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space... every connected region of space... has some degree of life, and that this degree of life is well defined, objectively existing, and measurable.hypothesis0.857
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• Life is structural, a quality that comes about because of the existence of a discernible structure in the wholeness.claim0.856
  The central thesis of the chapter, setting up the explanation of how life emerges.
• Life is a thing which can only be reached by humanness, by the personal, by the individual, childish temperament.claim0.848
• Life is not a limited mechanical concept; it is a quality which inheres in space itself and applies to every physical structure of any kind.claim0.836
  The fundamental thesis of the chapter and the book, redefining life as a universal spatial quality.
• life (beyond-biological quality)concept0.832
  The general, non-biological quality that Alexander claims exists in all material systems to varying degrees.
• Life is not something local, a thing which merely happens in a painting or a person or a mountain. It is a relation between the thing where it occurs and the world beyond.claim0.825
  Definition of life as a relational phenomenon across boundaries.