Knowledge of the fifteen properties refines one's ability to judge life accurately and predict staying power.

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• The fifteen properties are the very simplest things which can possibly be used as a basis for assembly of a living thing, and it is from simplicity that they ultimately derive.claim0.817
  Justification for using the fifteen transformations as a foundation.
• The fifteen properties, in their deepest form, provide the underpinning to the living experience and lovely comfort visible in the photographs.claim0.805
  The author explicitly ties the empirical photographs to his theoretical structure.
• The 15 properties will necessarily come into being as a result of any life-creating process.claim0.803
  Assertion linking the theory of properties to the dynamics of unfolding.
• The fifteen properties are the ways centers sustain each other's coherence, thereby contributing to the stability and robustness of natural systems.claim0.803
  Proposed as the reason the properties appear in functionally stable or semistable systems.
• The fifteen properties are attributes of wholeness and appear naturally when one focuses on enhancing the whole through structure-preserving transformations.claim0.799
  Linking the fifteen properties to the process of seeking wholeness.
• The fifteen properties are fundamental to the existence of wholeness and thus to all physical structures, not merely visual features of artifacts.claim0.797
  The chapter's central thesis, arguing that the properties are necessary manifestations of wholeness in any generated system.
• The fifteen properties, the field of centers, and the wholeness thoroughly and completely determine the way that buildings work.claim0.797
  Universality claim that the same geometric properties govern both beauty and function.
• The fifteen properties emerge directly and inevitably from the unfolding of the whole; it is these fifteen properties that guide all differentiations during development.claim0.797
  Alexander's claim that living structure properties are not incidental but are the operative mechanisms of wholeness-preserving transformation