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If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.

Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.

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The fifteen properties appear in nature as a direct result of repeated structure-preserving transformations unfolding the wholeness.
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Interpretation that the geometric properties of living structure are not arbitrary but arise inevitably from the smooth unfolding process.

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The fifteen properties come into existence naturally as a result of the structure-preserving process.claim0.875
Claim that the properties are not applied artificially but are consequences of correct unfolding.
The unfolding of wholeness through structure-preserving transformations must inevitably create the fifteen properties.hypothesis0.858
The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.852
Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
The fifteen properties emerge directly and inevitably from the unfolding of the whole; it is these fifteen properties that guide all differentiations during development.claim0.846
Alexander's claim that living structure properties are not incidental but are the operative mechanisms of wholeness-preserving transformation
In every natural developmental sequence examined, each state follows without breaking structure from the state before, exhibiting smooth structure-preserving unfolding essentially without exception.claim0.844
The empirical-observational claim grounded in the diverse case studies presented in the chapter
The core of all living process is step-by-step adaptation — the modification and evolution which happen gradually in response to information about the degree to which the emerging structure supports the whole.claim0.838
Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.832
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.claim0.831
Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness