Part of the structure of all life or order, is that it extends beyond itself.

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

• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.824
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.
• Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.822
  A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
• The kind of order that occurs in living structure has a complexity not usually describable by drawings or by architectural images.claim0.819
  Emphasizes the non-pictorial, process-dependent nature of living order.
• The existence of living structure, as defined in The Nature of Order, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture we have of architecture.claim0.819
  The closing claim of the chapter's mid-book appendix, asserting that the theory of centers has implications for physics.
• Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.817
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
• There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.817
  Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
• If the structure of uniqueness at every part does not occur, it is not an unfolded whole, not living structure at all.claim0.811
  Diagnostic criterion for living structure: absence of thorough uniqueness excludes living character.
• Life is structural, a quality that comes about because of the existence of a discernible structure in the wholeness.claim0.811
  The central thesis of the chapter, setting up the explanation of how life emerges.