The I, in some form, exists.

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

• The I or ground is a real thing, something which exists in the world, perhaps attached to matter, and forms a necessary substratum to all that exists.claim0.814
• In each of us, a person is existing, or waiting to exist; the most free version of that person occasionally appears briefly.claim0.812
• The I is at once the most personal, intimate thing and a single universal entity — it is personal-of-you and of-me but there is only one of it.claim0.812
  The three qualities of the I: personal, one, suffused with relatedness.
• The I (ground)concept0.809
  The fundamental self, ground, or substratum underlying all existence; a real thing, a blinding unity, accessible through inner light.
• The I (Great Self)concept0.796
  The transcendent ground of all existence, the eternal self within each person, to which we appeal when judging living structure and which is revealed when we truly please ourselves.
• The I (eternal self)concept0.792
  Central metaphysical concept of the chapter: the universal ground of selfhood that living centers reflect and connect to; what makers must yearn toward to produce living structure.
• The I exists physically, there is some plenum, not part of the physical space and matter as modeled in Cartesian science, but nevertheless there in fact.claim0.786
  Core assertion of the plenum model: the I is real, not a metaphor.
• The I itself—this thing which seems so rarified, so philosophical and which somehow has a religious origin—is also entirely personal in nature.claim0.786
  The claim that the transcendent ground of existence is accessed through the most direct, childish, personal making.