Life is a thing which can only be reached by humanness, by the personal, by the individual, childish temperament.

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• Life is a pervasive quality that includes ordinary biological life but also a kind of life in stones, concrete, and wood posts.claim0.848
  Summarizes the chapter’s view that life exists in the very materials of a building.
• Life is exactly that property of space in which each spot becomes unique according to its place in the larger scheme of things.claim0.843
  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: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city.quote0.842
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.
• 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.claim0.838
  Definition of life as a relational phenomenon across boundaries.
• 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.hypothesis0.831
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.811
  Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
• "Life is the person-stuff."quote0.809
  Load-bearing ontological statement condensing Alexander's thesis about the personal nature of life
• Life is wholeness; life springs from wholeness.claim0.807
  Equates the core quality with wholeness, setting up the book’s argument about order.