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There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and this — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture.

The final, most radical claim of the chapter: the I is not a metaphor but the actual foundation of material reality.

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The I (eternal self)
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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.

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"There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and that THIS — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture."
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Closing statement of the Mid-Book Appendix identifying the I as the foundation of both matter and architecture.

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

IN A BUILDING WHICH HAS LIFE, WHATEVER IS MADE IS ALWAYS THE SIMPLEST THING CONSISTENT WITH ITS NECESSITIES OF FEELING AND WITH THE CLOSE AND CONTINUOUS ATTENTION TO FEELING WHILE IT EVOLVES INTO FORM. THIS, I THINK, IS THE CLOSEST I CAN COME TO DESCRIBING THE CORE OF ARCHITECTURE.quote0.820
The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.820
The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
The core of architecture is that whatever is made is always the simplest thing consistent with its necessities of feeling and continuous attention to feeling while it evolves into form.claim0.815
Opening declaration of the chapter, synthesizing the essence of living architecture.
There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.802
Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
It really exists everywhere, it is single, underlying all things.claim0.797
Claim that the plenum is universal and singular.
The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.792
Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
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.claim0.790
A metaphysical claim that the true nature of order aligns with genuine human feeling, not with professional convention.
Life is really the primary thing, and the properties are really secondary.claim0.790
Epistemological priority: the felt life of a center is more basic than the geometric properties that support it.