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.

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

• 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.quote0.847
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.
• Life is a thing which can only be reached by humanness, by the personal, by the individual, childish temperament.claim0.838
• 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.hypothesis0.830
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• Life is exactly that property of space in which each spot becomes unique according to its place in the larger scheme of things.claim0.829
  Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
• Life is a pervasive quality that includes ordinary biological life but also a kind of life in stones, concrete, and wood posts.claim0.825
  Summarizes the chapter’s view that life exists in the very materials of a building.
• 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.claim0.810
  The fundamental thesis of the chapter and the book, redefining life as a universal spatial quality.
• The degree of life is not merely a distinction between beautiful and ugly things but is detectable in every corner of the world.claim0.809
  Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
• the degree of life of different things and places and events is objective - not solely in the individualquote0.808
  Load-bearing assertion of objectivity, summarizing the chapter's thesis.