Such middle-range order appears, without fail, in biological structures of all sorts, again making it virtually certain that there must be a predictable process which can create such order, and which does create it reliably in biological cases.

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

• The kind of order that occurs in living structure has a complexity not usually describable by drawings or by architectural images.claim0.826
  Emphasizes the non-pictorial, process-dependent nature of living order.
• In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.826
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
• The living process must give rise to coherent entities at a middle range of scale.claim0.812
  Asserts middle-range entity emergence as a necessary output of any living process
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.812
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.804
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.
• Hierarchical structures in biological systems enable local order while globally disordered, explaining complex patterning.claim0.803
  Claim that multiscale organisation produces complex patterns via clique-based local coherence
• 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.claim0.802
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
• Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.800
  Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.