The single criterion of whether everything is made of beings correlates accurately with the presence of life in the environment.

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

• The ultimate criterion for whether something works in nature and in buildings depends on the extent to which it resembles the healthy human selfclaim0.827
  Summarizes the post-Cartesian revolution in a single succinct criterion
• Everything you make must be a being.quote0.805
  A core directive from Book 4, p. 95, quoted to define the essence of living process in large buildings.
• Life, as it occurs in buildings or in works of art, can be measured, but only by a method that relies on the degree of development or enlightenment of the observer.claim0.802
  The fundamental methodological conclusion of the chapter.
• We feel degrees of life in different organisms, even though technically they all have equal biological life.claim0.801
  Summarizes the observation of graded life within the category of living things.
• The degree of life is not merely a distinction between beautiful and ugly things but is detectable in every corner of the world.claim0.799
  Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
• The making of a living world cannot be separated from each person's search for the true self.claim0.799
  The enigmatic conclusion that the most personal, inward search yields the most public, functional harmony.
• There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.799
  Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
• The relation between a person's own wholeness and the wholeness of things in their environment is a direct consequence of the nature of wholeness itself.claim0.798