Life (property of space)

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

• Life is exactly that property of space in which each spot becomes unique according to its place in the larger scheme of things.claim0.884
  Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
• Life as Inherent Attribute of Spaceconcept0.846
  Alexander's Proposition 1: that life is not a mechanical property but a quality that space itself has, analogous to Maxwell's electromagnetic field.
• Life (in buildings and artifacts)concept0.831
  The experienced presence of aliveness, wholeness, and connectedness in built form, beyond biological life.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space... every connected region of space... has some degree of life, and that this degree of life is well defined, objectively existing, and measurable.hypothesis0.828
  The central predictive/causal hypothesis of the book, to be tested in later chapters.
• The life which appears is an attribute of space itself.claim0.824
  The final distillation of the chapter's argument, making life a fundamental property of matter/space.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city.quote0.820
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.
• Life (in buildings)concept0.819
  The quality that makes a building or place alive, beautiful, and supportive of human life; argued to arise from the wholeness of centers.
• Life is not a mechanical property but an inherent attribute of space itself, analogous to Maxwell's electromagnetic field creating light.claim0.817
  Proposition 1 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the most fundamental metaphysical claim of the theory.