Arch A has more life than Arch B, reflected in the more coherent structure of its wholeness.

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• Which one has more life?question0.815
  The central empirical question Alexander repeatedly asked himself during twenty years of observation, and which he invites readers to ask when comparing any two artifacts or buildings
• Given two versions of a building, A and B, can we tell empirically which one has more life, in a way which allows people to reach agreement — that is to say, objectively?question0.804
  Opening question of the chapter that the entire methodological argument is designed to answer
• Can we find any structural features which tend to be present in the examples which have more life, and tend to be missing in the ones which have less life?question0.777
  The research question that drove the twenty-year empirical study and resulted in the fifteen properties
• The feeling that there is more life in one case than another is correlated with a structural difference in the things themselves, which can be made precise and measured.claim0.769
  Forward‑looking claim that the life quality has an objective basis, to be demonstrated later.
• A thing with more living structure makes the observer more of a person; a thing with less living structure makes the observer less of a personclaim0.767
  The experiential mechanism linking degree of life in objects to expansion or contraction of the observer's humanity
• Almost any social process can have a relatively more living character, or have a relatively less living character.claim0.765
• When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.765
• People of good will can reach substantial agreement about which actions are more structure-preserving or life-bearing.claim0.763
  Empirically grounded assertion that the process is sharable and not arbitrary.