The relatedness felt by traditional people is literally true, not a poetic fiction; they were aware of a factual entanglement with the world.

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

• The feeling of relatedness with a dewdrop is more fundamental than cognitive similarity; it is an essential connection.claim0.789
  Direct appeal to reader's experience.
• The relatedness through which I feel that my own self and the tree in the field are directly connected is the most fundamental relation that there is.quote0.781
  Load-bearing statement of the primacy of relatedness.
• There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.768
  Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
• There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.763
• The theoretical and factual substance of the world, its structure and its life, are congruent with the feelings we all have, not with professional architectural images.claim0.761
  A metaphysical claim that the true nature of order aligns with genuine human feeling, not with professional convention.
• The self and the tree are entangled; the connection is a real, non-mental entity that exists in the same substance.claim0.760
  The core of the relatedness argument.
• True belonging — true life — occurs when a penetration of the real into the fabric of the world occurs.claim0.760
  Defines the fundamental mechanism through which authentic connection to place happens
• Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.757
  Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.